Hello,

Just bumping this issue. Does anyone know anything about this?

Thanks,
Joel Oliveira

Quarta-feira, 21 de Março de 2012 16h58min44s UTC, Joel Oliveira escreveu:
>
> Hello Daniel and all,
>
> I am using OSSEC 2.5.1 on different Linux environments for the past year 
> and half with OpenSIPs and Asterisk applications to ban SIP brute-forcing 
> attackers and of course it is doing its job very well. Thank you to all 
> people involved with the development of this software.
>
> So, for the past 2 days I've been in a battle with having a way to check 
> which IPs are blocked by OSSEC-Server in an agent. I know that if I look 
> into the active-responses.log I'll see what were the actions taken in a 
> certain agent ( add and delete from the Iptables ) and if I look on the 
> IPTables I'll be able to see the blocked IPs as well. But in an agent that 
> the IPtables are complex there is no way of making sure that I am looking 
> at OSSEC inserted rules.
>
> My theory is that the server or the agent knows the association between 
> the timeout, the blocked IP and the agent so that it can remove that 
> active-response ( rule on the IPTable ) just after the timeout occured. 
> Question is: where can I find that association, i.e where is the list of 
> the blocked IPs of an agent?
>
> I already looked into this list and the IRC channel and didn't find any 
> information regarding this which for me it's odd because it seems to me 
> that this should be a functionality asked by a lot of people.
>
> On the same page of this problem I would like to know if it's possible to 
> remove an IPTable rule without doing an "iptables -D" and without 
> restarting the agent. You see, if I remove a rule "by hand", and because I 
> am using timeouts of 24h, if the attacker tries again it'll send 
> email_alerts but it'll not apply the active-response. So, my other question 
> is: Is it possible to remove an active response before it's timeout where 
> the agent is aware of that?
>
> Thank you very much for your time. Best Regards,
> Joel Oliveira
>

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