Allow unmetrered connections on networking is so risky. Attacker can use the brute-force attacks to comprosise your service (or simple DOS).

Linux has a cool firewall to hanlde this, via ip-tables. But it’s so complicated to remember all the rule and syntax. That’s why UFW was born to save us. :D

You can use simple command to manage your firewall

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$ ufw default deny incoming # deny any incoming port, should be run before allow any port
$ ufw default allow outgoing # allow any outgoing port
$ ufw allow 80 # allow port 80
$ ufw deny 53/udp # allow udp protocol to port 53
$ ufw disable # disable firewall
$ ufw enable # enable firewall
$ ufw status # check all the rules
$ ufw delete [num] # delete the rule by its order in status result
$ ufw reload # reload all rule
$ ufw limit ssh/tcp # finnaly, limit ssh (port 22 tcp), deny connections if an IP address has attempted to initiate 6 or more connections in the last 30 seconds

Someday, you will be blocked by a firewall while trying crawling or accessing some website. The reason is they block your IP address from accessing the server.

One solution is using a web proxy (http proxy, socks4 or socks5) to bypass the firewall, by adding the middle-man server between you and target. It’s a bit unsecured but you could use for https site only.

Some HTTP Proxy supports https will stream TLS data from target to you (so don’t worry about proxy server can read you data). Btw, it only knows which domain and IP address you’re connecting.

To find a free proxy from the internet, try this service : https://gimmeproxy.com/

It provides a cool API to fetch new proxy from its database.

Example this endpoint will return JSON response including proxy anonymous, supports HTTPS, from Japan and minimum speed more than 100KB

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http://gimmeproxy.com/api/getProxy?anonymityLevel=1&supportsHttps=false&country=JP&minSpeed=100

In case you need more requests per day, try a subscription (cancelable and refundable). I tried last days, and really like their service (although I cancelled subscription b/c I don’t need proxy anymore).

Break the rules ! ;)

Last day I checked system logs and got a lot of warning messages mentioned that my server has been attack via Brute-force. So I decided to blocked some countries from connecting to attacked ports (21, 25). They are China, Russia and US.

This site provides a list of IP blocks of specified country

http://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks/