Hey folks!
Debian VPS running on proxmox host.
Linux ve2 2.6.18-3-pve #1 SMP Mon Sep 20 14:57:48 CEST 2010 i686
I have a most perplexing problem. I have 17 Drop rules in place in this VPS - and one of the banned ranges is making it through. (It happens to be a Googlebot).
Here is the rule from iptables -L w/line numbers
2 DROP all -- 66.249.0.0 0.0.0.0/0
(The reason I'm blocking this is to cut down on the noise in webserver logs BTW)
When I checked logs this morning I was totally horrified to discover that several IP's from that range had been crawling the site. (Not that they shouldn't, but this meant that iptables wasn't "working"). Until yesterday no 66.249.*.* IP had been in since I deployed iptables.
How do I troubleshoot this? What could possibly be wrong?
Umm, although I'd prefer not to, nevertheless I have to scream "help" here.
TIA for any pointers, I'm completely stumped.
Regards,
putter