I put up a vps with nginx and the logs show dodgy requests within minutes, how do you guys deal with these?

Edit: Thanks for the tips everyone!

    • ItsGhost@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      Seconded, not only is CrowdSec a hell of a lot more resource efficient (Go vs Python IIRC), having it download a list of known bad actors for you in advance really slows down what it needs to process in the first place. I’ve had servers DDoSed just by fail2ban trying to process the requests.

      • Alfi@lemmy.alfi.casaEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Hi,

        Reading the thread I decided to give it a go, I went ahead and configured crowdsec. I have a few questions, if I may, here’s the setup:

        • I have set up the basic collections/parsers (mainly nginx/linux/sshd/base-http-scenarios/http-cve)
        • I only have two services open on the firewall, https and ssh (no root login, ssh key only)
        • I have set up the firewall bouncer.

        If I understand correctly, any attack detected will result in the ip being banned via iptables rule (for a configured duration, by default 4 hours).

        • Is there any added value to run the nginx bouncer on top of that, or any other?
        • cscli hub update/upgrade will fetch new definitions for collections if I undestand correctly. Is there any need to run this regularly, scheduled with let’s say a cron job, or does crowdsec do that automatically in the background?