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as xml file for Russia or for the Bahamas. If you are using firewalld, you can use my predefined drop zone e.g. The process is single-threaded, so also on servers with many CPU cores this is gonna takes some time.

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ufw behaves much better, a reboot of the Ubuntu test system with the full IPv4 and IPv4 Russian test set performed reasonably well.įor fully automated servers that run automatic updates and reboots and can have a rather large latency after a reboot, the firewalld method should be fine though. This is the reason, why I recommend the “Just block it already” method for most servers, because it scales much better. So if the rule setup takes 20 minutes, you need to wait for firewalld to finish startup before you can even ssh into the machine. During the firewall setup, you can’t ssh into the host. WARNING: firewalld can take ages to boot with large listsĪdding large blocklists makes firewall-cmd -reload take a long time! On my test machine it took 20 minutes for the following example on each reboot. See the section “List of mirrored blocklists” below in case the above stated link is not working. Select the country you would like to block and use CIDR as Format. Obtain the current country block lists from Obtaining and activating the blocklist ( firewalld and ufw)

Run: for ip in `cat blocklist.txt` do ip6tables -A INPUT -s $ip -j DROP doneĪlso here, as an example, have the Russian IPv6 CIDR list.

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Download the CIDR list to a file blocklist.txt.

Look at the produced list, check if nothing obvious is offĪs an example, I have mirrored the Russian IPv4 iptables rules here.

select the country and select Linux iptables as format.

If that’s not problem for you, then use this method, as it is much faster than firewalld (see below). The main downside is that the rules are not persistent, so you will need to re-apply them after each reboot, or after restarting firewalld. This is my recommended way for servers and that are maintained manually (e.g. This is a quickfix and/or immediate damage control procedure for IPv4 and IPv6. Just block it already! ( iptables quickfix) And don’t trust a random dude from the internet for your IT security. This will not block any real thread actor from doing nasty stuff to your systemsīuild your defenses, setup your shields and be vigilant. It might be helpful to block certain kind of scans or certain DOS attacks from script kiddies. This is at best an additional protection but will definitely not safe your butt. A word of warningĮverybody can easily bypass ip range blocks, so this is only useful to mitigate very course attacks or scans. blocking or block the whole IP space of the Bahamas, China, South Sudan, Madagascar, Russia or France. This blog post acts as a quick start in case your IT defense mechanism needs to harden a system by e.g. They are still cool peeps, trying to get over the rounds as everyone else. Fuck demagogy and oppression, but not the Russian people. I expect a sharp rise of IT thread in the upcoming time because the ongoing war gives opportunity. I have tested the procedure on openSUSE Leap 15.3, Ubuntu 20.04, CentOS 7 and Debian 10 Bullseye.

We will establish a blocking filter in three steps: Obtaining a block list, activating it and check the system for the active rules. Raw iptables however might be the fastest way to deploy this and given how slow firewalld and ufw are, raw iptables are my recommendation for most setups. Because those two methods scale very poorly, for firewalld the recommended way is to create and deploy a drop.xml.

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I will also show you how to setup persistent rules using firewalld or ufw. This is intended as immediate damage control but is not persistent. My best hope is that this can be used to shield some more exposed services from the poor fucking infrantry, searching for easy prey.Īt first will describe a very quick way of getting the job done via iptables (See “Just block it already”).

This is (at best) useful for only a handful of very coarse attack scenarios by groups with low resources and motivation. In this blog post I will try to summarize methods on how to block the IP space of certain countries on different classical Linux systems.Ī warning beforehand: anyone can bypass IP ranges easily. With the Ukrainian war ongoing the risk of various attacks on our domestic IT infrastructure is high.