Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 15:17:40 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.ca> To: bwoods2@uswest.net Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPFW...1 more question..... Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20000316151740.0217d280@marble.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000316121228.wwoods@cybcon.com> References: <3.0.5.32.20000316144216.00c94ac0@marble.sentex.ca>
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At 12:12 PM 3/16/00 -0800, William Woods wrote: >Hmmmm, well, I have a list of .com's that I want to block access totally, what >would be the most effective way then, .htaccess would just block web, and I >want a bit more totality than that. With .htaccess for apache, and all the services in /etc/hosts.allow that can be wrapped, what is missing for you ? ---Mike > >On 16-Mar-00 Mike Tancsa wrote: >> At 11:34 AM 3/16/00 -0800, William Woods wrote: >>>This firewall rule, >>> >>>ipfw add 001 deny log ip from aol.com/24 to alpha.cybcon.com >>> >>>am I correct in assuming that this will block ALL traffic from aol.com to >>>alpha.cybcon.com and log it? >> >> No. You need to specify IP ranges for ipfw to work. Putting in aol.com >> will just block whatever A record comes up for the host aol.com. It sounds >> like using libwrap (aka tcp_wrapper) might get what you want, or even >> things like .htaccess if you want to block website access. However, this >> will not always work either, as some of AOL's outsourced dialup might have >> PTR records of the outsourcing company, and not aol.com. >> >> ---Mike >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 >> Network Administrator, mike@sentex.net >> Sentex Communications www.sentex.net >> Cambridge, Ontario Canada > > >---------------------------------- >E-Mail: bwoods2@uswest.net >Date: 16-Mar-00 >Time: 12:10:41l >---------------------------------- > >NOTICE TO BULK E-MAILERS: Pursuant to US Code, Title 47, Chapter 5, >Subchapter II, 227, and all unsolicited commercial e-mail sent to this >address is subject to a download and archival fee in the amount of $500 US > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administrator, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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