On 8/9/20 7:13 PM, Marvin Jones via trinity-devel wrote: > Be careful about blindly blocking /8 CIDRs that way. > > My US-based web host/VPS host bought a /23 block about > a year ago from in the RIPE 45.8.0.0/13 allocation. > > I've seen a couple of issues such as yours with my VPS. > > (Blocking with pf here....) > Jonesy Amen, I usually try and limit to /22 or /24 at most, but after my MediaWiki install was abused several years back I started tracking and individually adding IP blocks to my config -- but there were so many from the 37 block I finally said to heck with it and blocked the whole thing :) Over the past 5 or so years, I've only had a handful of issue (this being one). I've had trimming my block list on the "get around to it" list for a while. I'll have to bump it up in priority. It's just a shame the internet has become so polluted that such steps are necessary. Before Mosiac -- all was good in the FTP world of old... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-devel-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-devel-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
