Sorry, Tom. I meant blocking traffic from certain IP to my external interface. Actually I saw a person keep sending me junk mail constantly for several days. He/she uses YAHOO, HOTMAIL accounts but uses a mail-server not beloging to HOTMAIL/YAHOO. So I want to black-list that IP.
Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Tom Eastep [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 9:25 AM To: Binh Do Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [leaf-user] Blacklist in Shorewall (Bering) --On Monday, January 06, 2003 12:08:55 PM -0500 Binh Do <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you Tom for the clarification. I thought that eth0 means the main IP > for that interface, but I guess I am wrong. So if I want to block some IPs > from all external IPs, then blocking from interface eth0 would do. > Correct? > Binh -- the backlist is for INBOUND TRAFFIC ONLY! So you block traffic TO your external interface, not FROM it. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Shorewall - iptables made easy Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.sf.net Washington USA \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
