Re: [PLUG] iptables: dropping bogus application-level content

[Douglas Muth <doug.muth@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Ron Mansolino <rmsolino@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm trying to figure out a way to avoid having Apache process/log bogus requests.

(my "dev" server collects a lot of bullshit from around the globe that I have no need to service,
and I'm not worried about a performance hit). For example this doesn't work:

-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -m string --string "ZmEu" --algo bm --to 999 -j DROP

What is a more proper way to drop bogus agents, requests, etc?
I don't want to do this with mod_rewrite.

I don't know off the top of my head, but it being a dev server implies that very few people are accessing it.  Why not white list IPs on port 80?  That would be a pretty effective way to cut back on your traffic.

-- Doug

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