Tag: iptables

IPTables and VestaCP – OUTPUT rules to allow DNS lookups

by mikho • February 20, 2015 • 4 Comments

This week I’ve been wrestling with an issue on the VestaCP test server I have, don’t want to test stuff in production. 🙂 So I somehow noticed that the firewall service was stopped in Vesta which I found odd. Opened…

Block an entire Country with iptables

by mikho • February 7, 2013 • 12 Comments

Here is a pretty fancy “trick” for the ones who wants to block certain parts of the world from accessing your VPS. first of all you need to know the netblocks for the country you want to block, this information…