This is all fantastic, thanks for the extra effort Richard.
I think a good title would be shorter, perhaps:
"Protect your site with fail2ban and firewalld blacklists"?
Paul
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 8:46 AM Richard Shaw <hobbes1069(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:52 PM Paul Frields <stickster(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Richard, sorry this is tardy. I was thinking about someone's (maybe it
>> was Matthew's?) point that the Magazine doesn't want to seem punitive
>> about any countries in particular. Maybe one of the ways to position
>> it is a use case where you run a site that serves a local neighborhood
>> (like an authority, or a business). It would made little sense for a
>> site like that to get a lot of visits from outside the locality, even
>> less so outside the country. So that makes a good backdrop for the
>> article.
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>
> Yes, it makes much more sense for localized / personal / private networks rather than
for commercial sites, and from what I was told, the technical level / audience for Fedora
Magazine is on the lower end so I think this aligns well.
>
>
>>
>> The editors could also find an accurate title like "Add security with
>> firewalld with blacklists." It would also be helpful if you have a way
>> to show an additional use of blacklisting that relies on something
>> else like an IP range.
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>
> Let me think about that, it wasn't part of the original idea which was around the
linode article. I definitely want to mention fail2ban in the title as it's what tells
us where the intrusion attempts are coming from.
>
> Ok, so I drafted this email, and then went down the rabbit hole for about an hour...
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> I've added the ability to block specific IPs as well so it's not just about
countries.
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> As far as the title:
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> "A layered approach to intrusion prevention with fail2ban and firewalld
blacklists"
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> Still too long?
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> Thanks,
> Richard