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inomi13

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Every day I receive notifications Warning: The system load average. Many connections from IP address for example 52.169.15.235, where ISP is Microsoft. What should I do? I don't what block this adress IP bocause users who will want send e-mail to my server, this e-mail will be block. Any suggest ?
 
If this is a Microsoft ip, and it's a MS bot, chances are things will start over again from another Microsoft ip.
So I would monitor this anyway, if it starts again with another ip, then check via logs and/or server-status what the thing is doing exactly.
 
Every day I receive many connections from MS oraz Google bots but I don't know what should I do, block evry adress ip ?
 
Not every connection from Google or Microsoft is legitimate. The requests can also come from customers of their hosting platforms with the intention of a DDOS or brute force attack on your server. We use up-to-date lists of IP addresses from AWS and Google Cloud servers that we occasionally block to prevent attacks. But my advice is to first analyze the impact of the connections on the performance of your server.
 
For example, Today I had 190 connections from IP adress 13.74.112.50. I checked this IP on page abuseipdb.com and I see many reports, so I should block every adres IP witch another people report on this page?

I have a huge an insue which adresses I should block. I wan't to avoid situation where some client will has problem to for example send e-mail to server which is in Microsoft infrastructure.
 
inomi13 said:
so I should block every adres IP witch another people report on this page?
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No this would cost you too much resources at a certain point. Also sometimes there are false positives in there.
You could also add the abuseipdb list into CSF but I would not advise it as it contains too many ip's.

Also it's normal that servers get attacked, so in a lot of cases you can just ignore it and it will pass. If it's just 1 ip which keeps busy, then just block it in CSF.
 
Situation is repeating every few day. From first attack I blocked about 10 address IP from these corporations.
 
Add the abuseipdb list to csf and see if this gives the desired result. If you use a modern OS, ipset is already active. As a result, even a list of 10,000 IP addresses has little effect on the performance of a server as long as you are slightly above the minimum requirements.
 
On first year, I have this problem too. After few years when I learning every thing relate to firewall protection, currently only take first hour to get high load before system automatic blocking every attacker IPs.

Currently I have problem only relate to trusted proxy like cloudflare cdn. I trying everything to block this with webserver that's have option to get real IPs from trusted proxy with rate limits rules and tuning from time to time.

So don't manual blocked by yourself. it will repeat never end. try to find the ways to automatics process.
 
@Ohm J You have right, manual blocking doesn't make sense because Google, MS or Facebook bot crawler use many IP addresses. Blocking IP address is risk because I don't know which IP adress is for example googlebot crawler or which Google IP is gmail server. Maybe my idea is stupid but I thought that to limit connection per IP adress? Whta do you think?
 
CSF already have those feature: CONNLIMIT, CT_LIMIT, PORTFLOOD.

you can limit to 100 comnection per IP. If there have some false positive, just increase to 150.
 
@Ohm J What do you think, which feature will be better? Global CT LIMIT on for example 150 connections will be too low because IMAP generate many connections.
 
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if you don't want to block them but only limits connection, just use "CONNLIMIT" only. This will limit only for new connection until old connection ended.

If you really under high load attack with multiple IP, you can use "CT_LIMIT" to blocked them for hours.

note: 150 is use when you are under high load attack. Just tuning until you thinks it not cause false positive anymore ( or not use it unless you needed ).
 
I have set PORTFLOOD = 80;tcp;100;60,443;tcp;100;60 and this solution works as I want. In proc/net/xt_recent/ I can be able to check which port and which source last seen. However I don't know how to unblock adress IP which will be ban via PORTFLOOD.
 
GUI already have all function. If you really want the command line, I suggest read document directly from CSF or from directadmin docs have a little explain.
 
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