[CentOS] which firewall to automatically block bandwidth abusers?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Aug 18 21:49:12 UTC 2011
On 8/18/2011 4:38 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 08/18/11 12:56 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>> BUT, if Steve changes his IP to circumvent the block, then his new IP
>> should be blocked as well.
>
> how would you know this?
If he is using pop, imap, authenticated smtp, web services with a logged
in session, ssh, etc., the applications know the user and may be logging
it. But there is nothing central or standard to collate this
information, and there are various circumstances that will cause many
users to have the same IP source or one user to have several.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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