From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel =?utf-8?q?Weism=C3=BCller?= To: development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: IPCop Banish Addon for IPFire Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 12:17:12 +0000 Message-ID: <20190107121712.Horde.wVwXr-9M3pA7ehIqSmcjQCb@whytea.ipfire-zuhause.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2467857871470476585==" List-Id: --===============2467857871470476585== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Rob, did you see Guardian?=20 In my opinion it does nearly the same. - Daniel Bob Brewer =E2=80=93 Mon, 7. January 2019 11:07 > Daniel Weism=C3=BCller wrote: >=20 > > Hi Rob, > >=20 > > thanks for your work. > > I don't know the banish addon for IPCop so I've read the readme.md on your > > github link. > >=20 > > But I don't see the advantage against the way to make firewall rules over > > the firewall.cgi > >=20 > > Please share your view of things with me. > >=20 >=20 > Hi Daniel >=20 > Thank you for your interest. >=20 > I have uploaded a couple of screenshots to github showing the Banish=20 > configuration page and the Banish Log page which I hope will help to show=20 > the difference with firewall.cgi. >=20 > I have a blocklist of about 150 IP Addresses, CIDR, or fully qualified=20 > domain names which have shown themselves to be long term abusers and Banish= =20 > is a very good way of managing this list. >=20 > I use Banish as part of an overall blocklist to protect my mail server from= =20 > abuse. I also have an in house IPFire front end addon to Fail2ban running=20 > on the mail server which uses a dynamic blocklist for short and medium term= =20 > abuse with Banish used for blocking long term abuse. >=20 > I have been using various flavors of Banish with IPCop for a number of year= s=20 > and find it very easy to manage my blocked resources which I think would be= =20 > quite difficult if I used just firewall rules. >=20 > Rob --===============2467857871470476585==--