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Jelle van der Waa authoredAdd a default rate limit for 20 req/s for the uwsgi endpoint and automatically ban users who reach this limit. The nginx-limit-req rule does not ban users who reach the rss limit as these are not likely DoS attempts.
Jelle van der Waa authoredAdd a default rate limit for 20 req/s for the uwsgi endpoint and automatically ban users who reach this limit. The nginx-limit-req rule does not ban users who reach the rss limit as these are not likely DoS attempts.
fail2ban
Fail2Ban is an intrusion prevention software framework that protects computer servers from brute-force attacks.
By default all our servers playbook should include the fail2ban role which enables the sshd jail by default through groups_vars. The default /etc/fail2ban/jail.local configuration whitelists all the servers in hosts, take note that when adding a new postfix relayhost the fail2ban role has to be run on the postfix server to update the whitelist.
Jails
Fail2ban can provide multiple jails for different services, to check the status of for example the sshd jail:
fail2ban-client status sshdTo unblock an IP Address:
fail2ban-client set sshd unbanip 8.8.8.8sshd
The sshd jail should be enabled for every host we have, to block brute force ssh attacks.
postfix
The postfix jail not enabled on any server. Adding it to a host:
Add fail2ban_jails dict with postfix: true to the host's host_vars.
dovecot
The dovecot jail is enabled for our mail server, blocking failed logins. Adding it to a host:
Add fail2ban_jails dict with dovecot: true to the host's host_vars.
nginx_limit_req
The nginx_limit_req jail is not enabled on any server. This jail bans IPs based repeated errors on nginx error log. Default blocking is 1 hour(s). Adding to a host:
Add fail2ban_jails dict with nginx_limit_req: true to the host's host_vars.
The rsslimit zone is whitelisted from being banned with ignoreregex, as we
choose to not ban RSS abusers.