On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:44:32AM -0800, Adam Lofstedt wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was just wondering if IPFilter would be suitable for use in blocking a
> list of Ips from getting through my firewall.  I'm using Snort inside my
> LAN, and am seeing a lot of code red type attacks on my internal
> servers.  Rather than just block those addresses on the specific
> servers, I'd like to stop them at the firewall.
> 
> I know I could use a "block in quick from bad_IP" type rule, but as the
> list of bad IP's grows, it seems harder to manage the ruleset.  Is there
> a an easy way to maybe edit a blacklist file and have IPFilter read that
> file?  Or is there some other tool that would be better for this
> purpose?

Based partly on some great input I got from this list, I build something
similar. You shoudl be able to re-use the concept for your black list.
Check out http://www.rospa.ca/documents/dshield_top10/dshield_top10.pdf
for details.

-T

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