On 2018 Jul 05 09:57:38, you wrote to Daryl Stout:

 DS>> I get a lot of connects with <no name> as the address...and the

 SD> A lot of these small firewall setups aren't enough to handle the crap
 SD> that's floating around on the Internet.  You really need an edge
 SD> firewall that simply blocks entire countries at first and then will
 SD> let you ban entire CIDR ranges from connecting.  Until you get
 SD> something with some gusto going you're going to have issues.

agreed... i've been saying this for years...

 SD> Even my system is starting to have problems right now so I'd better
 SD> get going on building myself an IPFire (yes, it reads "I pee fire",
 SD> heh) box.

have you tried smoothwall? ipfire is a fork of smoothwall... there's another
one that is also forked from smoothwall but i don't remember its name... i
think it also started with "IP"...

)\/(ark

Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it
wrong...
... I sense alcoholism runs deep in your lineage.
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