On your gateway, it is always a good thing to  ban incoming traffic
from and to 0.0.0.0
from and to Private ips (10.0.0.0, 192.168.0.0, 172.16. ...)
From your own Ips
To  any ip that is not yours

It's a good idea, but not really that necessary. Why? It's nearly impossible to spoof an IP with TCP stacks these days. UDP packets, on the other hand, can easily be forged. But while you can block private/reserved/etc. IP ranges, if someone is going to send spoofed packets, they can just send them from real IPs (which works better for them, as it throws you off their trail). Then, an IDS would have a harder time identifying the bad packets.


I'm seeing the following entries in my imail log:

09:05 13:02 SMTPD(54b901be00e843e8) [0.0.0.0] connect
206.114.180.92 port 58630

It looks like someone is trying to spoof ip 0.0.0.0?

No; that just means that IMail is listening on port 0.0.0.0 ("INADDR_ANY", indicating that it is listening on whatever IP(s) the TCP/IP stack assigns it). Didn't you wonder what the 206.114.180.92 IP was? :)


-Scott
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