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cPHulk IP Questions

OLM
Hi Folks, First posting here and am relatively new to cPanel so apologies in advance if I don't get all the terminology right first time. So here's the issue and questions - a few months ago the VPS started receiving quite a lot of various log in attempts to all services originating from many different countries. There are about 15 sites on the VPS and all were getting log in attempts to the various services. I was receiving lots of emails from the cPHulk system and was busily adding them to the blacklist. As we only log in to the server from two countries I started then to add IP Ranges from several countries to the blacklist. This worked well until today when we received a few thousand attempts from an IP from a country that wasn't on the blacklist. The VPS froze with a load count over 300 and the sites went down eventually. Restarted the VPS and blocked the IP - apparently the cPHulk database needed repairing and then everything returned to normal. So the above got me worried and I am unsure as to whether the number of records in the blacklist would be an issue - it currently stands at around 80,000 records. I do want to add some more IP ranges from countries that I haven't yet added but am concerned that I shouldn't? I didn't want to use the firewall approach as I don't want to block visitors from various countries just block log in attempts. Any advice appreciated! Cheers Steve

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  • OLM
    Hi, Just an update - have managed to reduce the number of records in the blacklist significantly by finding a better structured Country IP list. Have reduced the number from a little over 80,000 IP records to just over 26,000. This should cover all countries except the two that I need to log in from. Anyone see any issue with having 26,000+ records in the IP Blacklist?? Cheers Steve
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  • Infopro
    You might do better to use ConfigServer Firewall for this. At this link: [url=http://www.configserver.com/cp/csfdemo/config.html]ConfigServer Security & Firewall Use your browser to search for this section and see what options you have: Country Code Lists and Settings Also, read the warnings.
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