Hello Janis,

> Is it from someone like Yandex that fills up your nodes?  That started
> happening here.. so I use this line to keep them off the bbs nodes:
> iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -m string --string "block-me.com"
--algo kmp -j
> REJECT
> That is all one line, and of course you change
"block-me.com" to the name of
> the site that is nailing your system... works well here. 

Here a domain name doesn't show up, just an IPv4 address. I have started to
 add the IP's to block them. I was looking for a way to limit x connection
attempts from the same IP address within x seconds. And decided to use the
command line:

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 23 -i eth0 -m state --state NEW -m recent
--update --seconds 10 --hitcount 3 -j DROP

Which has seemed to help as my busy nodes issue isn't as bad as it was. At
least BBBS looks to be freeing up the nodes quicker.

Jeff

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