2018-07-16 Blocking IP Addresses

OK, I’ve fiddled with my setup and I think it should work, but these guys still get on my nerves because I don’t understand why they need to download my entire site, ten thousand selectors and counting. And so I learned about blocking IP addresses using iptables and ipset.

I got all the info from this blog post: Block IP addresses in Linux with iptables.

=> Block IP addresses in Linux with iptables

Here’s the gist of it:

# Install
apt-get install ipset

# create blacklist once
ipset create blacklist hash:ip hashsize 4096
# set up iptables rules
iptables -I INPUT -m set --match-set blacklist src -j DROP
iptables -I FORWARD -m set --match-set blacklist src -j DROP
# add a specific IP address
ipset add blacklist 192.168.1.100
# confirm the blacklist contains the IP address
ipset list blacklist
# show firewall setup
iptables -L
# unblock IP address
ipset del blacklist 192.168.1.100

And for IPv6, same same but different.

ipset create blacklist6 hash:net hashsize 4096 family inet6
ip6tables -I INPUT -m set --match-set blacklist6 src -j DROP
ip6tables -I FORWARD -m set --match-set blacklist6 src -j DROP
ipset add blacklist6 ...
ipset list blacklist6
ip6tables -L

To save and restore iptables rules, use the package iptables-persistent. We don’t need this, for now.

This seems to work.

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Now that I am also using fail2ban, here’s more:

# iptables --list f2b-alex-apache
-N f2b-alex-apache
-A f2b-alex-apache -s XXX -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
-A f2b-alex-apache -j RETURN

To remove XXX means to repeat the command but use -D instead of -A:

# iptables -D f2b-alex-apache -s XXX -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable

Verify that it is gone:

# iptables --list-rules f2b-alex-apache
-N f2b-alex-apache
-A f2b-alex-apache -j RETURN

– Alex Schroeder 2018-10-07 19:07 UTC