[wellylug] Blocking bad IPs from server

Nathan Cook nathan at cook.net.nz
Sat Jan 27 08:23:07 NZDT 2007


On Saturday 27 January 2007 07:48, John Durham wrote:
> Jethro Carr wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 18:59 +1300, John Durham wrote:
> >> That's an interesting concern. I can only tell you the command Andre
> >> gave me seemed to work. The server has been quiet since, but I have not
> >> noticed any performance effects. If you want to test it out from your
> >> end, try bringing up my website. Let me know what problems if any you
> >> have.
> >
> > problem: your site is not accessible at all from my system - my
> > webbrowser is unable to connect at all. (I'm on a residential ihug ADSL
> > line)
> >
> > I am able to ping it, so I would assume somehow you have blocked port 80
> > traffic to my IP - or possibly to all IPs by mistake.
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Interesting- it might explain the current traffic levels. You are the
> first to report the problem, thanks, although I'm not sure how to
> unblock it.

I to cannot connect to it, I'm on Telstraclear cable.




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