Hi Mark
# ufw status Status: active
To Action From -- ------ ---- 22/tcp ALLOW Anywhere 80/tcp ALLOW Anywhere 8080/tcp ALLOW Anywhere Anywhere DENY 66.249.64.32
But however this is possible, still Googlebot is crawling and eating CPU!
I haven't used UFW, but I'm looking at the documentation here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UFW
and it seems that the order of the rules is important. Quote:
Once a rule is matched the others will not be evaluated (see manual below) so you must put the specific rules first. As rules change you may need to delete old rules to ensure that new rules are put in the proper order.
and from the man page:
Rule ordering is important and the first match wins. Therefore when adding rules, add the more specific rules first with more general rules later.
Many thanks for the clarification! Yes, this makes sense. So I would have to delete all rules and write them again in the correct order? Very "uncomplicated" indeed ;-) However, I now deletd the rule for 66.249.64.32 in UFW since the rule in iptables succeeded (without giving any special order). Best wishes & thanks again: Michael -- Geschäftsführer · Diplombibliothekar BBS, Informatiker eidg. Fachausweis Admin Kuhn GmbH · Pappelstrasse 20 · 4123 Allschwil · Schweiz T 0041 (0)61 261 55 61 · E mik@adminkuhn.ch · W www.adminkuhn.ch