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|    Sean Rima to Alan Ianson    |
|    Blocking an ip from all services    |
|    18 Jun 21 09:45:07    |
      REPLY: 1:153/757.3 da3fc550       MSGID: 2:263/1.2 60cc5d13       TZUTC: 0100       CHRS: CP437               >> Recently finding a few naughty people trying to log on with my name, of        >> course I cannot see what password they are using as that isnt logged.               AI> I find a lot of bots hitting port 22, 23 and 25. There can be a lot of        AI> activity on port 80 and 443 as well. I don't have anything listening on        AI> 22, 23 or 25 that that doesn't bother me. I have my telnet port listening        AI> on port 2030 just to avoid all that.               AI> If someone was bothering you I'd block them at the firewall.              Yeah the bots dont worry me too much, it is the odd telnet connection who       tries to log on as me. I assume I logged onto their bbs and they are using the       weak password I used there :) will add them to the firewall                >> Is there a way in inet.bbb to bloxk the ip from all protocols or do I        >> manually have to add each one               AI> You can also block IP's at the bottom of the inet.bbb but I think you need        AI> to block each service you have open and want blocked.              Yeah been doing that. Firewall is the way to go               Sean       --- AfterShock/Android 1.6.7        * Origin: a mobile point (2:263/1.2)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 14/0 15/0 19/36 30/0 80/1 90/1 103/705 105/81 106/201       SEEN-BY: 116/18 120/331 340 123/131 128/2 129/305 135/392 153/757       SEEN-BY: 153/7715 154/10 218/700 221/1 6 222/2 226/30 227/114 229/101       SEEN-BY: 229/424 426 452 550 700 1016 1017 230/150 152 240/1120 5832       SEEN-BY: 249/206 317 250/1 261/38 100 263/1 266/512 267/155 275/100       SEEN-BY: 280/464 282/464 1038 1056 291/100 111 292/854 301/0 1 101       SEEN-BY: 301/113 317/3 320/119 219 322/757 340/400 341/66 342/200       SEEN-BY: 396/45 633/280 640/1321 712/848 801/161 189 920/1 2320/105       SEEN-BY: 3634/12 5020/1042 5058/104       PATH: 263/1 222/2 261/38 301/1 229/426           |
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