Some firewall rules I use (iptables)

[Don777]

Some fire walls rules for blocking crawlers and stay safe

*filter

# drop forwarded traffic. you only need it of you are running a router
:FORWARD DROP [0:0]

# Accept all outgoing traffic
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [623107326:1392470726908]


# Block all incoming traffic, all protocols (tcp, udp, icmp, ...) everything.
# This is the base rule we can define exceptions from.
:INPUT DROP [11486:513044]

# do not block already running connections (important for outgoing)
-A INPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

# do not block localhost
-A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT

# do not block icmp for ping and network diagnostics. Remove if you do not want this
# note that -p icmp has no effect on ipv6, so we need an extra ipv6 rule
-4 -A INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT
-6 -A INPUT -p ipv6-icmp -j ACCEPT

# allow some incoming ports for services that should be public available
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 242 -j ACCEPT
#ODQD
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 8923 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT

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