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| 240 | 1 #summary Granular remote host blacklisting plugin |
| 2 #labels Stage-Stable | |
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| 4 = Details = | |
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6 As often it's undesiderable to employ only whitelisting logics in public environments, this module let's you more selectively |
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7 restrict access to your hosts (component or server host) either disallowing access completely (with optional exceptions) or |
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8 blacklisting certain sources. |
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| 10 = Usage = | |
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| 12 Copy the plugin into your prosody's modules directory. | |
| 13 And add it between your enabled modules into the global section (modules_enabled): | |
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15 * The plugin can work either by blocking all remote access (s2s) to a certain resource with optional exceptions (useful for components) |
| 240 | 16 * Or by selectively blocking certain remote hosts through blacklisting (by using host_guard_selective and host_guard_blacklisting) |
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18 = Configuration = |
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20 || *Option name* || *Description* || |
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21 || host_guard_blockall || A list of local hosts to protect from incoming s2s || |
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22 || host_guard_blockall_exceptions || A list of remote hosts that are always allowed to access hosts listed in host_guard_blockall || |
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23 || host_guard_selective || A list of local hosts to allow selective filtering (blacklist) of incoming s2s connections || |
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24 || host_guard_blacklist || A blacklist of remote hosts that are not allowed to access hosts listed in host_guard_selective || |
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26 == Example == |
| 280 | 27 <code language="lua"> |
| 28 host_guard_blockall = { "no_access.yourhost.com", "no_access2.yourhost.com" } -- insert here the local hosts where you want to forbid all remote traffic to. | |
| 281 | 29 host_guard_blockall_exceptions = { "i_can_access.no_access.yourhost.com" } -- optional exceptions for the above. |
| 280 | 30 host_guard_selective = { "no_access_from_blsted.myhost.com", "no_access_from_blsted.mycomponent.com" } -- insert here the local hosts where you want to employ blacklisting. |
| 281 | 31 host_guard_blacklist = { "remoterogueserver.com", "remoterogueserver2.com" } -- above option/mode mandates the use of a blacklist, you may blacklist remote servers here. |
| 280 | 32 </code> |
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34 The above is updated when the server configuration is reloaded so that you don't need to restart the server. |
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| 240 | 36 = Compatibility = |
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| 280 | 38 * Works with 0.8.x, successive versions and trunk. |