Keep triggering IP being blocked in VPS with DA Firewall

GregW

GregW

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We have (way too many) email accounts for different websites that are checked on regular intervals, on 3 different computers. I know it has to be the too many connections resulting in the IP being blocked.

How do I fix this (or what setting do I edit) to stop our dynamic IPs from being added to the block list in the Firewall? I keep having to allow our IP in the firewall allow IP. I have my own VPS with 23 accounts.

I can't get a static IP with Starlink and that is our only choice of provider as we live rural.

Thanks
 
Maybe subscribe to a VPN service and rent a static IP from them (very cheap nowadays) and whitelist that IP. That would be a better solution if you're dealing with dynamic IPs from your ISP.
 
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You could subscribe to a service as no-ip.org or something similar. That name can then be put in the csf.dyndns file and firewall restarted.
However, this only affects the CSF firewall then, as far as I know there is no dynamic whitelisting for Directadmin itself.
 
Richard G said:
You could subscribe to a service as no-ip.org or something similar. That name can then be put in the csf.dyndns file and firewall restarted.
However, this only affects the CSF firewall then, as far as I know there is no dynamic whitelisting for Directadmin itself.
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Does having a no-ip.org IP does that affect routing and thus slow our internet connection?
 
GregW said:
Does having a no-ip.org IP does that affect routing and thus slow our internet connection?
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Not that I'm aware of. You asked for a solution so your ip's would not be whitelisted and that is the best solution next to a vpn which for sure will slow down the connection slightly.
Maybe I misunderstood what you needed?

If you post the message you get from CSF then it's a lot easier to see which setting needs adjusting.

Other solution, just put the complete Starlink subnet in your csf.ignore file.
You can choose here which subnet you might need.
 
GregW said:
We have (way too many) email accounts for different websites that are checked on regular intervals, on 3 different computers. I know it has to be the too many connections resulting in the IP being blocked.

How do I fix this (or what setting do I edit) to stop our dynamic IPs from being added to the block list in the Firewall? I keep having to allow our IP in the firewall allow IP. I have my own VPS with 23 accounts.

I can't get a static IP with Starlink and that is our only choice of provider as we live rural.

Thanks
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Check out wireguard and setup a vpn connection between your three pc's and server.
 
GregW said:
I was hoping to avoid needing a VPN.
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No worries. I've got a static IP from my ISP which I pay extra for a month. It's a shame your ISP won't do the same.

If it's only emails you're interested in, why not use something like Outlook or Thunderbird (Other clients are available) and read/send via the IMAP/SMTP service on your server? That shouldn't block IPs if you're reading from various PCs. That's also how I read my mail from several boxes rather than logging into server and using Roundcube if that's how you're currently doing it.
 
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