[Wolves] Denying annoying ip's with my smoothwall

Aquarius wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk
Wed Nov 6 15:21:01 2002


In article <T5e661c9de7ac1785ed32b@pcow035o.blueyonder.co.uk> you wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> I'm getting 3-4 abuse scans a day from my ISP (Blueyonder) as well as 
> portscans from several rpetitive ip addresses.
> 
> Am I right in thinking that if I put these IP's in my smoothwall hosts.deny 
> then they will get 'no connection', or will I break something?
> 
> I'm fed up with my logs being full of this crap.

The portscans you can do. BY might get somewhat iffy about you blocking
their abuse scans, since they're *allowed* to do those, it's part of
the AUP...

Aq.

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