Yes that will work for those on my home network. But I have family from out of state that also uses the site and that would block them. From a google search I believe I could use something like the Apache .htaccess directory protection. Thanks for the input! John -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of mark Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 8:16 AM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Identifying and Stopping Unwanted Net Traffic Krautkramer, John wrote: > > Thanks for the help on this! I found the problem is this web server was > intended for use by my family only, not the whole world which appears to > have found it. Checking the apache logs I found much more activity than > it should be getting. Now I have a new project, to figure out how to > limit usage to only those that I want. > > Thanks again for the help!! You need to block inbound traffic *except* from your internal home net. mark -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
