Am 02.09.2014 um 12:18 schrieb Michael Knill <michael.kn...@ipcsolutions.com.au>:
> Hi thanks Michael. > > Yep that makes sense and its doing what its meant to. How do I go about > clearing the block? I guess since the failed connect messages are still in the log file, Adaptive Ban will be triggered again. You could try to clean the log and restart the firewall … > Regards > Michael Knill > > > On 2 Sep 2014, at 7:17 pm, Michael Keuter <li...@mksolutions.info> wrote: > > > Am 02.09.2014 um 06:22 schrieb Michael Knill > <michael.kn...@ipcsolutions.com.au>: > >> Hi group >> >> Yay Adaptive Ban works as I managed to ban myself from accessing my remote >> system. Lucky I had another address I could connect from. >> Pretty sure I did it by having a remote extension with the wrong password on >> my network that I was testing with to the site. >> >> So my questions are: >> >> 1) How do I clear the ban? >> 2) How can I prevent it from happening again? > > Why do you need then Adaptive Ban, it is exactly meant for blocking remote > IPs which connects to your system on allowed ports with wrong credentials. > How should Adaptive Ban detect fraud otherwise? > >> It looks like the only option is to include a fixed IP Address for a remote >> extension in the Whitelist. > > Yes. Or connect via a VPN (then the IP range is known). > >> So am I to assume that ADAPTIVE_BAN_TIME=120 and ADAPTIVE_BAN_COUNT=6 means >> that if it detects 6 failures (authentication for instance) from the same IP >> in 120 seconds then it will ban that IP if not in the whitelist? > > Yes. By default all "internal" (LAN/VPN) networks are whitelisted. > >> Regards >> Michael Knill > > Michael > > http://www.mksolutions.info > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Slashdot TV. > Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. > http://tv.slashdot.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > pay...@krisk.org. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Slashdot TV. > Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. > http://tv.slashdot.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > pay...@krisk.org. Michael http://www.mksolutions.info ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.