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USING ICEFLOOR HOW TO

Let me say that again, because it cost me hours: turning pf on and then off again using IceFloor changes your system. Sudo /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/afctl -a 69.23.0.45 -t 35īack to the instructions which Apple provides for enabling the adaptive firewall and then fixing the rules problem there are two extra things to know… First, there’s no need to panic when you see the following warnings, as these are normal:īut even more importantly for some people - and a long exercise in frustration if you happen to be me - is that if you have ever run the third-party pf front-end IceFloor, and you have used IceFloor to switch pf on and then off again, then as far as I can tell, IceFloor does not restore your system to the same state in which it began. Using an example taken straight from the man page, to add 69.23.0.45 to the blacklist for at least 35 minutes: You can check the man page for afctl to learn more about quickly adding or removing hosts from the blacklist. You are both enabling the packet filter pf - the more modern successor to the venerable ipfw - which is controlled with pfctl, and enabling the adaptive firewall, which is controlled with afctl. What’s happening here is actually two different things.

OS X Server: Packet Filter Rules Do Not Load.

USING ICEFLOOR HOW TO

OS X Server: How to Enable the Adaptive Firewall.

It can save you from the otherwise steady onslaught of hacking attempts - in my experience, sometimes scores per second - emanating from botnets and every script kiddie with a laptop this side of the Urals (or the other side of the Urals, I guess).Īpple provides two knowledgebase documents with the basics, but these are just the tip of the iceberg: If your server is exposed to the world, as it will be if you’re hosting publicly available websites, it’s probably worth planning early on to enable OS X Server’s adaptive firewall. It’s hard to think of a reason not to use it. Although in years gone by, Apple’s adaptive firewall implementation was widely derided for incorrect counting of failed SSH login attempts - which could result in legitimate users being banned far more quickly than expected - most or all of these problems are behind it now.