A more pliable firewall

[Artyom Viklenko]

On Friday 20 February 2009 15:30:11 Max Laier wrote:
> On Friday 20 February 2009 09:28:49 Artyom Viklenko wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Bakul Shah wrote:
> > > I am wondering if there is a more dynamic and scriptable
> > > firewall program.  The idea is to send it alerts (with sender
> > > host address) whenever a dns probe fails or ssh login fails
> > > or smtpd finds it has been fed spam or your website is fed
> > > bad urls.  This program will then update the firewall after a
> > > certain number of attempts have been made from a host within
> > > a given period.
> > >
> > > Right now, when I find bad guys blasting packets at me, I add
> > > a rule to pf.conf to drop all packets from these hosts but
> >
> > Actually, you can use tables and add these ip-s to tables
> > while leave pf.conf untouchable. The only thing to resolv
> > is to write some daemon which will receive notifyes and update
> > pf tables. It should be not so hard to write such piece
> > of software.
>
>  /usr/ports/net-mgmt/pftabled]> cat pkg-descr
>  The pftabled daemon is a small helper to make your pf
>  tables reachable from other hosts. You can add/delete/flush
>  IP addresses to/from a remote table with a single UDP
>  datagram. A simple client program is included to do this
>  from the command line.
>
>  WWW:    http://wolfermann.org/pftabled.html
>

Wonderful! Thanks a lot! :)


> > > all this manual editing is getting old and the internet is
> > > getting more and more like the Wild West crossed with the
> > > Attack of the Zombies.
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > freebsd-net at freebsd.org mailing list
> > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net
> > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"



-- 
            Sincerely yours,
                             Artyom Viklenko.
-------------------------------------------------------
artem at aws-net.org.ua | http://www.aws-net.org.ua/~artem
artem at viklenko.net   | ================================
FreeBSD: The Power to Serve   -  http://www.freebsd.org