GeoIP support - DenyCountry

Bob Proulx bob at proulx.com
Sun Jan 19 10:40:51 EST 2003


David Walker wrote:
> It is not a security mechanism as such.  It is a scan reduction tool.
> 
> It is useful for my network in that all of my users are based in the
> United States.  Any connection from outside the United States is
> automatically known to be bogus and there is no reason to allow it
> to continue.

That functionality more rightly belongs in a firewall than in ssh.
You can always place a firewall between ssh and the network.  In fact
that is probably a good thing regardless.

I also do not think that this feature belongs in ssh.

Bob




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