Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-09-01 Thread Walter Haidinger
Am 31.08.2011 15:35, schrieb Karanbir Singh: PS: To install iptables from source is pretty straightforward: get the tarball from netfilter.org, unpack and run: ./configure --prefix=/opt/iptables make make install And at that point you lose. All management capability or the

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-09-01 Thread Walter Haidinger
Am 31.08.2011 15:18, schrieb Always Learning: uname -a = 2.6.35.4 #2 (don't know how this got installed) This is not a CentOS-provided kernel; as has been said elsewhere in the thread, this is likely an OpenVZ kernel. Your hosting No stock OpenVZ kernel, see

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Michael Schumacher
Are you a dog lover ? I like dogs too. They usually bark at strangers. Paul. PLONK see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plonk_%28Usenet%29 best regards --- Michael ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Tru Huynh
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 04:43:46AM +0100, Always Learning wrote: That you for the useful enlightenment. I was unaware it was an OpenVZ. I thought is was XEN on Ubuntu. Next time, try posting more usefull information stating that you are indeed running CentOS on a CentOS support mailing list and

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Always Learning cen...@u61.u22.net wrote: On a VPS I wanted to add to IP tables:- iptables -A -p tcp -m string --algo bm --string 'login' -j DROP I got:        iptables: Unknown error 18446744073709551615 uname -a =  2.6.35.4 #2  (don't know how

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Walter Haidinger
Am 31.08.2011 04:24, schrieb Always Learning: On a VPS I wanted to add to IP tables:- iptables -A -p tcp -m string --algo bm --string 'login' -j DROP I got: iptables: Unknown error 18446744073709551615 uname -a = 2.6.35.4 #2 (don't know how this got installed) lsmod | grep

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, August 30, 2011 10:24:41 PM Always Learning wrote: On a VPS I wanted to add to IP tables:- iptables -A -p tcp -m string --algo bm --string 'login' -j DROP iptables: Unknown error 18446744073709551615 uname -a = 2.6.35.4 #2 (don't know how this got installed) This is

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 09:01 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: On Tuesday, August 30, 2011 10:24:41 PM Always Learning wrote: uname -a = 2.6.35.4 #2 (don't know how this got installed) This is not a CentOS-provided kernel; as has been said elsewhere in the thread, this is likely an OpenVZ

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 08/31/2011 12:10 PM, Walter Haidinger wrote: PS: To install iptables from source is pretty straightforward: get the tarball from netfilter.org, unpack and run: ./configure --prefix=/opt/iptables make make install And at that point you lose. All management capability or the

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 09:18:26 AM Always Learning wrote: A very helpful and knowledgeable poster, Walter Haidinger, in his email dated Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:10:16 +0200 (12:10 BST), gave what appears to be an ideal solution. * get a more recent iptables from netfilter.org It's

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Mike
Perhaps the most important point here is that the script kiddies and/or bots usually make sure the target string, 'login' in your example is *not* contained within a single packet. You can verify this with wireshark. In any case just be aware that your solution will likely not have the

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 09:54 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: It's less than ideal to install anything from source, as Karanbir has so correctly pointed out downthread. Sometimes it is necessary; but it is never ideal, for the reasons KB stated The service provider has suggested it needs the

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/31/11 7:22 AM, Always Learning wrote: In the current 4,000 to 6,000 daily hits, the lunatic uses login.php contact.php forgotten_password.php your 'lunatic' aka 'hacker' is undoubtably a blind script ('bot') running on distributed previously hacked hosts, and probing

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 08:07 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: On 08/31/11 7:22 AM, Always Learning wrote: In the current 4,000 to 6,000 daily hits, the lunatic uses login.php contact.php forgotten_password.php your 'lunatic' aka 'hacker' is undoubtably a blind script ('bot')

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: On 08/31/11 7:22 AM, Always Learning wrote: In the current 4,000 to 6,000 daily hits, the lunatic uses login.php contact.php forgotten_password.php your 'lunatic' aka 'hacker' is undoubtably a blind script ('bot') running on distributed previously

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 11:16 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Maybe not, for a small website. However, let me re-suggest fail2ban, with three lines from one of our config files: failregex = HOST -.*GET .*(php|pma|PMA|p/m/a|db|sql|admin).*/(config/c onfig\.inc|main)\.php.*.*404.*

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 8/31/2011 11:22 AM, Always Learning wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 11:16 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Maybe not, for a small website. However, let me re-suggest fail2ban, with three lines from one of our config files: failregex = HOST -.*GET .*(php|pma|PMA|p/m/a|db|sql|admin).*/(config/c

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 11:29 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote: I assume this is an Apache server. Have you looked at mod_security (http://www.modsecurity.org/)? It is available from the epel repository. There is a bit of a learning curve to get it running, but it protects against a ton of hacking

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread m . roth
Always Learning wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 11:16 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Maybe not, for a small website. However, let me re-suggest fail2ban, with three lines from one of our config files: failregex = HOST -.*GET .*(php|pma|PMA|p/m/a|db|sql|admin).*/(config/c

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/31/11 8:22 AM, Always Learning wrote: Looking at your example seems to suggest Fail2Ban is an 'after the event' response. I would like to implement 'before the event' filtering which prevents, even on the first detected hacking attempt, anything reaching HTTPD. so you want another piece

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 8/31/2011 11:32 AM, Always Learning wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 11:29 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote: I assume this is an Apache server. Have you looked at mod_security (http://www.modsecurity.org/)? It is available from the epel repository. There is a bit of a learning curve to get it

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 08:41 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: On 08/31/11 8:22 AM, Always Learning wrote: Looking at your example seems to suggest Fail2Ban is an 'after the event' response. I would like to implement 'before the event' filtering which prevents, even on the first detected hacking

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 11:51 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 8/31/2011 11:32 AM, Always Learning wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 11:29 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote: I assume this is an Apache server. Have you looked at mod_security (http://www.modsecurity.org/)? It is available from the epel

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/31/11 9:00 AM, Always Learning wrote: No I do not want another piece of software to parse the http protocol and analyze the traffic. IT Tables, in which I have great confidence and trust, can do it. iptables will filter on packet headers and such at layer 3, it can't and won't analyze

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Always Learning
UPDATE: I started with kernel 2.6.35.4 #2 and lsmod | grep ipt = ipt_LOG 5419 2. My service provider produced a replacement kernel 2.6.24-28-xen #1. Now lsmod | grep ipt reveals .. ipt_LOG 8192 2 iptable_filter 4608 1 ip_tables 24232 1

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 09:11 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: iptables will filter on packet headers and such at layer 3, it can't and won't analyze the content of packets, regardless of your emotional attachments. I believe IP Tables '-m string' will. If you think the custodians and maintainers

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 11:15:20 AM Always Learning wrote: Dangerous to ignore any background noise - far better to firmly shut the door and fill-in all known holes. The unknown holes are the ones that will get you. You are also setting yourself up for a denial-of-service vector.

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/31/11 9:32 AM, Always Learning wrote: Wrong. Some can be determined by machine searching for 'known' invalid URL strings which are not remotely similar to valid web page names. there's an infinite number of invalid strings, and only a finite number of valid ones. anyways, your webserver

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 10:17 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: anyways, your webserver already filters these out, its not going to respond to an invalid URL with anything other than '404'. thats its job. The 'error' is trapped; a PHP routine examines the URL for known (in a list) hacker strings;

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:17 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: Wrong. Some can be determined by machine searching for 'known' invalid URL strings which are not remotely similar to valid web page names. there's an infinite number of invalid strings, and only a finite number of

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 13:01 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: On today's Internet you are simply not going to catch 100% of the attacks, full stop. Rather than being a willing or passive victim to 100% of the attacks, I aim to reduce the penetrability of most of them. Paul.

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/31/11 10:33 AM, Always Learning wrote: Rather than being a willing or passive victim to 100% of the attacks, I aim to reduce the penetrability of most of them. an attempted access of a non-vunerability won't be any more effective the millionth time its run than the first time. its the

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 10:38 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: On 08/31/11 10:33 AM, Always Learning wrote: Rather than being a willing or passive victim to 100% of the attacks, I aim to reduce the penetrability of most of them. an attempted access of a non-vunerability won't be any more

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 01:33:31 PM Always Learning wrote: Rather than being a willing or passive victim to 100% of the attacks, I aim to reduce the penetrability of most of them. Getting the last 10% will cost you 90% of your time. ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 13:55 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 01:33:31 PM Always Learning wrote: Rather than being a willing or passive victim to 100% of the attacks, I aim to reduce the penetrability of most of them. Getting the last 10% will cost you 90% of your

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Louis Lagendijk
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 19:00 +0100, Always Learning wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 13:55 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 01:33:31 PM Always Learning wrote: Rather than being a willing or passive victim to 100% of the attacks, I aim to reduce the penetrability of most

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 22:08 +0200, Louis Lagendijk wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 19:00 +0100, Always Learning wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 13:55 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 01:33:31 PM Always Learning wrote: Rather than being a willing or passive victim to

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Craig White
On Aug 31, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Louis Lagendijk wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 19:00 +0100, Always Learning wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 13:55 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 01:33:31 PM Always Learning wrote: Rather than being a willing or passive victim to 100% of the

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 16:11 -0700, Craig White wrote: More to the point, he disables SELinux and then spends hours trying to improve security. Tell the world the ENTIRE story. Disabled it because things would not run. Said publicly in the last 7 days will find time to learn about Selinux and

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 12:28:01AM +0100, Always Learning wrote: Tell the world the ENTIRE story. That you never listen to anyone but yourself? I'm confident that this is a known fact. I am trying to filter-out some web page access attepts in IP Tables. When will you accept that has

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/31/11 4:28 PM, Always Learning wrote: Disabled it because things would not run. Always Talking. Never Learning. -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 18:06 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: On 08/31/11 4:28 PM, Always Learning wrote: Disabled it because things would not run. Always Talking. Never Learning. Always Learning despite the taunts ! Paul. ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Ned Slider
On 01/09/11 00:28, Always Learning wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 16:11 -0700, Craig White wrote: More to the point, he disables SELinux and then spends hours trying to improve security. Tell the world the ENTIRE story. Disabled it because things would not run. Said publicly in the last 7

[CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-30 Thread Always Learning
On a VPS I wanted to add to IP tables:- iptables -A -p tcp -m string --algo bm --string 'login' -j DROP I got: iptables: Unknown error 18446744073709551615 uname -a = 2.6.35.4 #2 (don't know how this got installed) lsmod | grep ipt = ipt_LOG 5419 2 yum upgrade iptables* =

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-30 Thread Steve Walsh
On 08/31/2011 12:24 PM, Always Learning wrote: On a VPS I wanted to add to IP tables:- iptables -A -p tcp -m string --algo bm --string 'login' -j DROP I got: iptables: Unknown error 18446744073709551615 uname -a = 2.6.35.4 #2 (don't know how this got installed) I'm

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-30 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 13:02 +1000, Steve Walsh wrote: I'm wagering that's not the full output of uname -a. As far as I'm aware, centos have never shipped a 2.6.35 kernel with any release, and that's the sort of error you get with a openVZ stab (or Stable) kernel, where unless the host

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-30 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 04:07:44AM +0100, Always Learning wrote: Have already done that. I'm getting about 6,000 web hits a day (all wrong URLs) from a lunatic who I can stop in IP Tables but only if the alleged Centos version is up-to-date. Has nothing to do with being up-to-date; it has to

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-30 Thread Always Learning
On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 22:11 -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 04:07:44AM +0100, Always Learning wrote: Have already done that. I'm getting about 6,000 web hits a day (all wrong URLs) from a lunatic who I can stop in IP Tables but only if the alleged Centos version

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-30 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 04:17:36AM +0100, Always Learning wrote: NO I will not. I have already emailed them. Then you won't get the support. Period. The necessary IP Tables facilities are not available. Therefore, contrary to your strange assertion Has nothing to do with being up-to-date

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-30 Thread Steve Walsh
On 08/31/2011 01:17 PM, Always Learning wrote: NO I will not. I have already emailed them. wowjust...wow. The necessary IP Tables facilities are not available. Therefore, contrary to your strange assertion Has nothing to do with being up-to-date that IP Tables version is certain

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-30 Thread Always Learning
On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 22:22 -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 04:17:36AM +0100, Always Learning wrote: NO I will not. I have already emailed them. Then you won't get the support. Period. Utter rubbish. They are excellent either by phone or by email. It's not

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-30 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 04:30:37AM +0100, Always Learning wrote: Thank you for informing me the 'choice' is mine. Without such undoubted inspirational wisdom I would never have known I had a choice. I am most grateful to you. The choice is indeed yours. You can 1) listen to those that know

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-30 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 13:30 +1000, Steve Walsh wrote: They have not been included, probably because you are running an openVZ 'stab' kernel. Failing to give us the complete output in your initial post means that anyone helping you is taking blind guesses. That you for the useful

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-30 Thread Always Learning
On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 22:41 -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: The choice is indeed yours. Thanks for confirming that again. Its really nice of you to keep reminding me. You can 1) listen to those that know what they are talking about and probably have 50 years of combined experience; or 2)

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-30 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 04:54:33AM +0100, Always Learning wrote: Thanks for confirming that again. Its really nice of you to keep reminding me. Sigh. Can you please stop barking? Your need to get the last word in on EVERY thread is more than a little annoying. Just to end this, you can be

Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-30 Thread Always Learning
On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 23:08 -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: Sigh. Can you please stop barking? Are you a dog lover ? I like dogs too. They usually bark at strangers. Paul. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org