Re: Restrict server access

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com>]

Will Parkinson wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I was wondering if there was any way to restrict server ssh, ftp and
> even http access to certain countries / ip ranges?  I've been using
> debian for a while at home but am pretty new to the security side of
> things.
> 
> Any help much appreciated

You can use /etc/hosts.allow, /etc/hosts.deny to allow and block certain
range of IPs. Both the files are very easy to configure. I don't know how
to allow/block access based on the country of origin.

hth
raju

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