Securing apache

tgoodaire · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 12:41 am Post subject: Securing apache

I have an apache server running, and I'm getting a lot of messages in my logs from worms.

ie. stuff like this:

verbaltoxin · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 2:48 am Post subject:

I don't think that you'd really want an "on the fly" IP blocker. That can lead to troubles and frustration down the line.

You might want to look into this
Dynamic iptables firewalls :
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fw/index.html and
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/dynfw.xml

Check your logs and manually block those address that offend you.

you can emerge this under net-firewall/dynfw

tgoodaire · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 4:39 am Post subject:

Thanks for the links. I'll look into those for sure.
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