On 10/1/14, Jasmine Iwanek <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2014-10-01 04:15, Christopher Gregory wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have now blocked the following ip ranges from accessing my website as >> they can not be trusted due to the fact that they compromised a phpbb >> board that I had set up on my previous host to send their spam, and >> they >> are STILL bloody well trying on my new host: >> >> 120. 120.0.0.0 - 120.255.255.255 (includes china >> telecom) >> 76. 76.0.0.0 - 76.255.255.255 >> 193. 193.0.0.0 - 193.255.255.255 >> 91. 91.0.0.0 - 91.255.255.255 >> 200. 200.0.0.0 - 200.255.255.255 >> 180. 180.0.0.0 - 180.255.255.255 >> 63. 63.0.0.0 - 63.255.255.255 >> 37. 37.0.0.0 - 37.255.255.255 >> >> I have also been sending emails to the abuse departments of the ip >> blocks. >> >> Some of the ranges may be inocent, but I am not going to trust them. >> The >> whole 120 block is probably china, so I really do not care. >> >> Its about time that the countries who have these incessant spammers are >> actually firewalled off from accessing the internet. Let those >> countries >> only be allowed to spam locally. >> >> Quite possibly if the internet was made R21 world wide, a lot of this >> crap >> would go away. >> >> Christopher. > > That's great, what does it have to do with the development of BLFS? > > It's kinda ironic you just spammed about spam. > > -- > Jasmine Iwanek > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page >
Just an idea stemming from Spybot Search and Destroy from Safer-Networking, but it may be a useful idea in the future to create a BLFS community sponsored block-list of known malicious URLs and IP addresses in the BLFS or CBLFS book(s) at some time in the future that can be added into the /etc/hosts file optionally in the Chapter 4 - Security section. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
