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Blocking abusive IP addresses using IPTABLES Firewall in Debian/Ubuntu

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RoseHosting.com
Sep 6, 2014

In one of our previous article we have posted an instructional guide on how to secure your Debian/Ubuntu based VPS using IPTABLES/Netfilter.

In the following article we are adding a blacklist to the firewall script which will allow you to block any abusive IP addresses or ranges of IPs in your Debian or Ubuntu based virtual server.

R

RoseHosting.com

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