Re: hosts.deny - get China off my server

[Mike Knox <mike%zapes.eu@localhost>]

Hi,

I have done this before using pf.  I put a list of China's addresses in 
a file, read it into pf as a table and blocked the IP's from there


On 27/04/12 17:34, herbert langhans wrote:
> Hi List,
> before I start these experiments I better ask you.
>
> I have my NetBSD-server with a couple of websites on. Also two Wikis
> (the well known Mediawiki) running. There are always couple of 'users' -
> actually some bots or script kiddies what try to open an account there.
> It is annoying to delete hundreds of these. There are plugins for
> Mediawiki, but they still require care.
>
> Since many of these requests are from China, I would like to block the
> whole ip-range. This is possible by adding them to /etc/hosts.deny - but
> maybe there are some better solutions.
>
> A simple question: What do/would you use to get China off your server?
>
> All ideas welcome. Thanks!
> herb langhans
>
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