On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 12:48, Kapil Sethi wrote: > Hey Yash, > > Nothing to worry. Hi Kapil,
The thing which is worrying me that i am getting thousands hits everyday to my server , which i don't want. > > Thousands of machines in the world get infected by Virus (oops Virii). > and in turn start malicious requests for other web servers. This is a part > of normal junk traffic which almost every live webserver faces. I checked whois for these IPs they keep on changing..so simply blocking them i don't think is going to work. > > And if the server is behind a firewall, dont waste your time blocking all > the clients connecting to the server, as they keep on changing [ p.s. I have > alraedy spent over 5 hours per day in past, but the list went on > increasing]. Is it possible that we block such request in iptables itself? Right now My default Rule is ACCEPT for INPUT,OUTPUT,FORWARD. I read some where on net that it is possible in cisco routers. So here is great possibilty of same in linux too. > > You are fortunate that you are running Apache which is not affected by these > M$ specific bugs. If you have an M$ webserver as well make sure it is > uptodate wil all the latest patces from M$. I am very fortunate too for not running any M$ webserver in my history.:) > > On the other hand if this webserver is not connected to the internet, it > means either you have some virus infected machine on the network or you have > got somebody in your office who is trying to be a hacker / cracker. I sure that someone ppl here must be using some trick to avoid such connections. reading... /yash > > Regards > > Kapil Sethi > > > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
