Sometime it is necessary to block incoming connection or traffic from specific remote host. iptables is administration tool for IPv4 packet filtering and NAT under Linux kernel. Following tip will help you to block attacker or spammers IP address.
How do I block specific incoming ip address?
Following iptable rule will drop incoming connection from host/IP 202.54.20.22:
iptables -A INPUT -s 202.54.20.22 -j DROP iptables -A OUTPUT -d 202.54.20.22 -j DROP
A simple shell script to block lots of IP address
If you have lots of IP address use the following shell script:
A) Create a text file:
# vi /root/ip.blocked
Now append IP address:
# Ip address block file 202.54.20.22 202.54.20.1/24 #65.66.36.87
B) Create a script as follows or add following script line to existing iptables shell script:
BLOCKDB=â€/root/ip.blocked†IPS=$(grep -Ev "^#" $BLOCKDB) for i in $IPS do iptables -A INPUT -s $i -j DROP iptables -A OUTPUT -d $i -j DROP done
C) Save and close the file.
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Thanks for the script!
I’m using it to block some traffic that was comment spam in my wordpress installation. Akismet was catching the spam itself, but now I’m blocking a handful of IPs at the firewall and don’t have to moderate as much garbage!
Much appreciated!
Dave.
D.E.R. Management, Inc – IT Project Management consulting
Cool, I’ve been running my own custom drop list I have honed over the years. Too much hacking. I block international access to domestic business servers whenever possible. I’m tired of those log files filled up with password guessing Asia. It works fantastic if one does not need access to international.
My blockiplist is text exactly like yours, but my script is different and I can’t recall why I did it this way, I hope it’s right, but it seems to work.
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for i in `cat /etc/blockiplist|grep -v “#”`
do
ADDR=$i
/sbin/iptables -t filter -I INPUT -s $ADDR -j DROP
/sbin/iptables -t filter -I OUTPUT -s $ADDR -j DROP
/sbin/iptables -t filter -I FORWARD -s $ADDR -j DROP
/sbin/iptables -t filter -I INPUT -d $ADDR -j REJECT
/sbin/iptables -t filter -I OUTPUT -d $ADDR -j REJECT
/sbin/iptables -t filter -I FORWARD -d $ADDR -j REJECT
echo “Block ALL INPUT from ” $ADDR ” net DROPPED.”
done
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Simple, elegant. I love it.
i can not connect a linux system from a squid proxy server for internet uses than what will be do
Sir,
In my company we are using Redhat Linux(15 EL) server for proxy settings, i need the command for blocking some particular ip’s not to use the internet & the same thing i need to release them to use internet, pls help me…………
Remove an entry:
You can either delete by number or by recreating the rule. “iptables -D INPUT 3” will remove the 3rd (counting from 1) rule. Or “iptables -D INPUT -s 65.75.152.40 -j DROP” will remove the corresponding entry independent of location. The rules must match exactly though or you’ll get a “Bad rule” error.
reference: http://www.plug.org/pipermail/plug/2004-November/010608.html
Thanks for this – it was very helpful. For people who cut and paste, you may need to remove the quote marks around the BLOCKDB variable value in order to get it to work properly.
Best,
Ben
Excellent. Just the instructions I was looking for to block some malicious users from accessing my mail server.
Thanks for the information. I want to ask if it is possible to block absolutely EVERY single IP on the web except for a particular one on my home network (192.168.2.102) ?!
How to do that ?!
Apache can do this (for the http protocol) but it looks like the ftp server allows everyone in.
I want to block all IP’s except that one mentioned above.
Maybe a silly question, but why have an INPUT *and* and OUTPUT rule? Isn’t the OUTPUT rule overkill? If somebody already can’t reach your server (packets are dropped), your server is not going to send any packets to them…, right?
Sander, I think it might be because some scanners will continue to try even if incoming traffic is dropped, should they get any traffic back at all from attempts to brute-force entry into a system. Mayhap? Prithee? Perchance? Bueller?
Hi
This does not block samba access?
Improved for blocking ip ranges:
The /root/ip.blocked looks like:
I got it from http://ipblocklist.com
This is our first day without login attempts from China. Cheers!
“or add following script line to existing iptables shell script:”
how do I do that? I’m on ubuntu, iptables are in /sbin and appear encrypted…..
any help appreciated as this looks to be a simple way to restrict a number of ip’s but I’m stuck! thanks.
Awesome Post man. Big help!
Thanks For the script,
But why when i run the script , it said /root/ip.blocked not such a file or directory
Thanks or the answer
Hello,
I want to block USERS who access a particular IP, Example 192.27.5.115 (Which is a server IP) and i don’t want any users to access the IP. How can i restrict users to log into the particular IP? I dont have info about all User IP’s.
Good code. Helped me a lot with a little problem. Thank’s!