Blocking countries with GeoLite2 in nginx using the letsencrypt docker container
Since the GeoLite legacy database has been discontinued, we now have to use the GeoLite2 database to get new updates to the database. This will be a followup article from the post i made about the legacy database.
How to setup GitLab to use Rack Attack and ban abusive IPs and rate limit requests
So, for anyone that’s running the GitLab Docker container, I got real IPs to pass through to the logs and was then able to setup Rack Attack (similar to Fail2Ban), which is included by default, to ban abusive...
Adding ban/unban notifications from Fail2Ban to Discord!
I thought I would follow up on the Fail2Ban Pushover post with a Fail2Ban Discord post!
Adding ban/unban notifications from Fail2Ban to Pushover!
If you’re like me and think Fail2Ban is an awesome tool for intrusion protection, getting a notification when someone has been banned is the bee’s knees! And using Pushover makes it very simple!
How to setup Cloudflare and fail2ban with automated “set_real_ip_from” in nginx
If you’ve decided to use cloudflare as a CDN you’ve might have noticed that fail2ban isn’t working as expected. The fail2ban.log file will say that it has banned an IP, but since the connection is...
Blocking countries with Geoip using the letsencrypt docker container
A short guide on how to geo block your webpage with nginx.
Banning with basic auth and Fail2Ban
By using basic auth on you apps there is nothing stopping people from trying to brute force their way in. But by implementing Fail2ban, you can give the user or intruder x amount of retries before getting banned.
Fail2ban with Organizr and Letsencrypt on unRAID
In this guide I will explain how to integrate Letsencrypts Fail2ban with Organizr.