<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Michael,<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 11, 2018, at 5:26 PM, Michael Stauber <<a href="mailto:mstauber@blueonyx.it" class="">mstauber@blueonyx.it</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">That's why I prefer to have APF (or a firewall in general) in front</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">which makes sure that visitors from "bad countries" are turned around at</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">the fence and before they get to the front door.</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">I agree. I was relying on PAM to do this, but clearly we have outgrown.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m in sort of a pickle now… Purchased and installed APF and Fail2Ban. Installed APF, then went to turn on GeoIP in SSH (allowed US) and saved. SSH got turned off, so I enabled and saved. GUI then became unresponsive from my office… as did ssh. I’m now at the customers office, and we can’t access the server locally either. Only access I have is physical console.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">HELP! LOL</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div><div class="">Jeff</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>