Re: IPCop Banish Addon for IPFire

["Daniel Weismüller" <daniel.weismueller@ipfire.org>]

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Hi Rob,

did you see Guardian? 
In my opinion it does nearly the same.

-
Daniel


Bob Brewer – Mon, 7. January 2019 11:07
> Daniel Weismüller wrote:
> 
> > Hi Rob,
> > 
> > thanks for your work.
> > I don't know the banish addon for IPCop so I've read the readme.md on your
> > github link.
> > 
> > But I don't see the advantage against the way to make firewall rules over
> > the firewall.cgi
> > 
> > Please share your view of things with me.
> > 
> 
> Hi Daniel
> 
> Thank you for your interest.
> 
> I have uploaded a couple of screenshots to github showing the Banish 
> configuration page and the Banish Log page which I hope will help to show 
> the difference with firewall.cgi.
> 
> I have a blocklist of about 150 IP Addresses, CIDR, or fully qualified 
> domain names which have shown themselves to be long term abusers and Banish 
> is a very good way of managing this list.
> 
> I use Banish as part of an overall blocklist to protect my mail server from 
> abuse. I also have an in house IPFire front end addon to Fail2ban running 
> on the mail server which uses a dynamic blocklist for short and medium term 
> abuse with Banish used for blocking long term abuse.
> 
> I have been using various flavors of Banish with IPCop for a number of years 
> and find it very easy to manage my blocked resources which I think would be 
> quite difficult if I used just firewall rules.
> 
> Rob