Firewall

[davethorp]

I run opensuse 10.2 on my machine running a couple of websites through apache webserver.

I've recently noticed in my blogs access logs that I'm getting a large number of hits to the blog from one IP address. Either someone loves what I'm saying on my blog so much that they need to read the same pages over and over again all day every day or (more likely) someone is trying to get round the antispam controls my blog has and isn't having much look.

Anyway banning by IP seems to be best plan however a quick google suggests that setting that up in the firewall would be the easiest way but I can't see anything in Yast that would let me do this.

Any suggestions on how to sort the firewall out or any other SIMPLE ways to achieve the same results

[a18u14]

I run opensuse 10.2 on my machine running a couple of websites through apache webserver.

I've recently noticed in my blogs access logs that I'm getting a large number of hits to the blog from one IP address. Either someone loves what I'm saying on my blog so much that they need to read the same pages over and over again all day every day or (more likely) someone is trying to get round the antispam controls my blog has and isn't having much look.

Anyway banning by IP seems to be best plan however a quick google suggests that setting that up in the firewall would be the easiest way but I can't see anything in Yast that would let me do this.

Any suggestions on how to sort the firewall out or any other SIMPLE ways to achieve the same results

use iptables to block that particular ip from accessing your server. you can do this from yast firewall options. documentation is available on cd from which u would have installed or online from novell.

http://www.novell.com/documentation/..._reference.pdf