Re: Block certain remote hosts on submission port

2013-08-24 Thread Noel Jones
On 8/24/2013 3:52 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 8/24/2013 1:18 PM, LuKreme wrote: >> >> On 22 Aug 2013, at 21:28 , Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> >>> ~$ wget http://ipdeny.com/ipblocks/data/countries/us.zone >>> ~$ sed 's/$/ OK/g' us.zone > us.cidr >>> ~$ cp us.cidr /etc/postfix >>> ~$ postfix reload >

Re: Block certain remote hosts on submission port

2013-08-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/24/2013 1:18 PM, LuKreme wrote: > > On 22 Aug 2013, at 21:28 , Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> ~$ wget http://ipdeny.com/ipblocks/data/countries/us.zone >> ~$ sed 's/$/ OK/g' us.zone > us.cidr >> ~$ cp us.cidr /etc/postfix >> ~$ postfix reload >> >> and you're off to the races. > > Interesting

Re: Block certain remote hosts on submission port

2013-08-24 Thread LuKreme
On 22 Aug 2013, at 21:28 , Stan Hoeppner wrote: > ~$ wget http://ipdeny.com/ipblocks/data/countries/us.zone > ~$ sed 's/$/ OK/g' us.zone > us.cidr > ~$ cp us.cidr /etc/postfix > ~$ postfix reload > > and you're off to the races. Interesting idea. I'm in much the same boat. Although I do have

Re: Block certain remote hosts on submission port

2013-08-23 Thread Patrick Lists
On 08/23/2013 12:47 PM, Mikael Bak wrote: [snip] In fact it's not a good idea at all IMO. People do travel and they need to read and write email while they are abroad. Laptop and/or smartphone users will not like your new restriction policy when they try to get some work done while visiting a pa

Re: Block certain remote hosts on submission port

2013-08-23 Thread Mikael Bak
On 08/22/2013 01:51 PM, Charles Marcus wrote: [snip] > > The simple fact is, we do not have any users based *anywhere* but the > US, so, is what is the simplest way to block any/all non-US based client > connections on my submission port? > [snip] Hi, Sometimes it seems like a good solution to f

Re: Block certain remote hosts on submission port

2013-08-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/22/2013 9:57 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 8/22/2013 6:51 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: > >> The simple fact is, we do not have any users based *anywhere* but the >> US, so, is what is the simplest way to block any/all non-US based client >> connections on my submission port? > > > Use the us.z

Re: Block certain remote hosts on submission port

2013-08-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/22/2013 6:51 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: > The simple fact is, we do not have any users based *anywhere* but the > US, so, is what is the simplest way to block any/all non-US based client > connections on my submission port? Use the us.zone ipdeny file to build a CIDR table to accept any US c

Re: Block certain remote hosts on submission port

2013-08-22 Thread li...@rhsoft.net
Am 22.08.2013 14:23, schrieb Charles Marcus: > Now to figure out how to log these firewall rejections to a separate log > file, so I can see them if/when someone > complains about not being able to connect nothing easier than that * the first rule logs with rate-control to avoid self-DOS * the

Re: Block certain remote hosts on submission port

2013-08-22 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2013-08-22 8:03 AM, Simon B wrote: Surely the simplest solution is fail2ban with the false attempts in x minutes resulting in a 20 minute ban? No for two reasons... 1. Again, we have ZERO users who are outside the US, so why allow connections at all? and 2. I am not currently seein

Re: Block certain remote hosts on submission port

2013-08-22 Thread Simon B
On 22 Aug 2013 13:52, "Charles Marcus" wrote: > > Hi all, > > This isn't about spam, this is about blocking obvious attempts to hack/connect to my submission port. > > I know and understand the argument against just blanket blocking hosts based on the country of origin, but I've recently been seei

Block certain remote hosts on submission port

2013-08-22 Thread Charles Marcus
Hi all, This isn't about spam, this is about blocking obvious attempts to hack/connect to my submission port. I know and understand the argument against just blanket blocking hosts based on the country of origin, but I've recently been seeing random connections on my submission port from hos