Block ip and country in vestacp firewall

geek · Post by **geek** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 3:40 pm

Hello.

I have a VPS server with vestacp installed (core package 0.9.8 Release:14) on centos 6.5
Other than running websites, I am also running a VNC server (ports 5500 and 5900) for providing remote support.

In my VNC log, I am constantly getting connection attempts on the VNC ports every second from Korea and China.
There are way too many ip addresses for me to add it manually using the vestacp firewall module.
But It is only from 2 countries and I also have the latest IP address list.

Problem:
Vestacp is having its own firewall module. I am concerned that if I edit iptables manually and then make change in the GUI, it will overwrite the rules that I have added in iptables.

Is there a way that I can block the two countries ip blocks without messing up vestacp configuration?

BBuchanan1013 · Post by **BBuchanan1013** » Sat Jan 16, 2016 11:52 pm

geek wrote:Hello.

I have a VPS server with vestacp installed (core package 0.9.8 Release:14) on centos 6.5
Other than running websites, I am also running a VNC server (ports 5500 and 5900) for providing remote support.

In my VNC log, I am constantly getting connection attempts on the VNC ports every second from Korea and China.
There are way too many ip addresses for me to add it manually using the vestacp firewall module.
But It is only from 2 countries and I also have the latest IP address list.

Problem:
Vestacp is having its own firewall module. I am concerned that if I edit iptables manually and then make change in the GUI, it will overwrite the rules that I have added in iptables.

Is there a way that I can block the two countries ip blocks without messing up vestacp configuration?

You can always look into changing the VNC server ports to something completely different. Otherwise, there is a chance that adding/changing something VestaCP could overwrite your manual changes.

BBuchanan1013 · Post by **BBuchanan1013** » Sat Jan 23, 2016 6:58 am

I got to thinking about this, and you don't need to use a firewall set. You can use htaccess.

http://www.ip2location.com/blockvisitorsbycountry.aspx

bobmeetin · Post by **bobmeetin** » Wed Feb 13, 2019 4:45 pm

I found the ban list by visiting:

https://$ipaddress:8083/list/firewall/banlist/

It gives severall pulldown ban options - WEB for sure, but I'd rather ban it for all. How would you do that?

The spammer IP address is: 93.179.68.108. What is the syntax for banning the subnet, not just the individual IP address?

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