From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FyV7f-0004Po-VY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:46:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k66Ej83Z022953; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 14:45:08 GMT Received: from hu-out-0102.google.com (hu-out-0102.google.com [72.14.214.198]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k66EdLCV009936 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 14:39:22 GMT Received: by hu-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 34so1399573hud for ; Thu, 06 Jul 2006 07:39:21 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=MywkSl6CBemhskGgfPFJ+dlPGSFmq+3i14U/41Wlts+c9bUFoHKqAoQY6x57l/TiUoiiuRrxG74b1aseTnWH6S6FgfnYB7h9s3LkCdQCMEPKgq5X/a1yGSRjiIwm0MqAuzRljrP7xry9t2Kp9BCHi00z5Qd6wonfzLXCrteXjaE= Received: by 10.67.93.6 with SMTP id v6mr798219ugl; Thu, 06 Jul 2006 07:39:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.243.7 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 07:39:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <342e1090607060739k731d9e5flce698b52cc0b9e9a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 11:39:21 -0300 From: "Daniel da Veiga" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <49bf44f10607041556w3db1b64et625c088ba8c56541@mail.gmail.com> <44AB1C8E.4090903@gmail.com> <44AB6C6A.9040008@mid.message-center.info> <44ABEB65.6080200@gmail.com> <44AC5209.60803@gmail.com> <44AC5AFB.1050806@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: c9c940ff-8fd7-4c53-83c9-404f98e9a83f X-Archives-Hash: 3d5a95c6ce2e6a4e59a13e77c1ab1210 On 7/6/06, Lord Sauron wrote: > On 7/5/06, Ryan Tandy wrote: > > Steven Susbauer wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Ryan Tandy wrote: > > > > > >> Lord Sauron wrote: > > >>> If you can, what I'd do is try and get the guy's MAC Address or > > >>> something and then totally block that off. That's send him away right > > >>> quickly. I don't know enough to know if that'd be totally possible, > > >>> but if the guy isn't terribly intelligent, that'll send him packing. > > >> net-analyzer/macchanger ;) > > >> > > > > > > What's this? Portage on Windows? > > > > More just to mention that there is such a thing out there. And if it > > exists for us, chances are he has a similar tool available. > > However, if you block his mac without an error message, then he can't > know how you're identifying him to block him. He probably won't know > what to do, and just might give up then. Worth a try, if nothing > else. > Yeah, that's pretty much true. For a LAN. Doying it at the Internet would most probably blacklist a entire subnet that's routed to you with that MAC. So, not worth a try, it would be something more to configure, and get you no benefit at all, while risking making your machine invisible for people who could use the services you are trying to securely provide. -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list