Questions tagged [blocking]
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block website for a specific Mac address - lede firmware router
I am trying to block specific websites/urls in my home network only for specific users / Mac addresses, is this at all possible?
I have a Linksys WRT 1900 WRT v2 router running LEDE, a varient of OpenWRT.
Thanks

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how to disable a spcific cgi page in apache?
I have an Apache server that hosts multiple sites, one of them use CGI, one of them does not. While security scanning this non-CGI site was flagged in the tool for security review for a CGI page.
I am trying to block that page in Apache using the…

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UFW doesn't block the mongodb port
I have blocked 27018 using ufw but still, I can connect to that port from my computer using mongo command line tool.
is there any solution to this?
I tried to run ufw reload but result is still the same

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is it possible to block a certain facebook or twitter account via firewall or proxy?
I would like to block/filter/censure certain social network users witch content may be offensive or violent, so that people inside my LAN ( say school ) will have access to the main site,
for example facebook.com
but not to for example to…

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How to keep md-raid from blocking IO?
I run a server with md-raid (software) level 1 (2 HDDs mirroring) and several different applications run on it.
The problem arises when file-intensive jobs (e.g. extracting large archives) run while some users are also using realtime applications…

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How to lock Windows Server 2008 R2?
I have a virtual server running Windows Server 2008 R2. There are approximately 4 users of the virtual machine that access the machine via RDS. I have noticed several instances where multiple users logged onto the system cause processing problems…

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User blocked in AD by some windroid device
We have a user that is constantly blocked. We checked the logs in the domain controllers and all the information shown is that a WINDROID device is the source. How can I know which device is causing this? Is there a way to analyze this more deeply?

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Block empty user-agents nginx?
My site was under attack and I noticed all the user agents are blank. How can I block this with my nginx?
I have no idea what to block, if this is an empty user agent or what.
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Block IPs in apache2
Ok another noob questions here. I have serveral IP's probing my server for phpmyadmin and other administrator stuff, looks like they're looking for something to hack, but honestly I don't care who they are, I just want to block them. How can i block…

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Fix/Bypass "Cannot connect to the real website-blocked" error in Google Chrome with OpenDNS blocking
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How do I stop chrome from refusing to load pages that are blocked by OpenDNS, where the server has explicitly requested HTTPS?
Long question:
I have a large problem with Chrome in my organisation. I use DNS to manage web site blocking, for…

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Apache Bot Blocking when using element
I was looking through my access logs today and concluded I should probably make an effort to deal with bad traffic. I am trying to use this list (https://github.com/bluedragonz/bad-bot-blocker) as as starting point.
My server is setup is a Java…

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How do I Stop IE8 through WSUS
Currently I have a two domain enviroment of vista with all machines calling into WSUS. The with the recent advent of IE8 being avaliable through WSUS that's been great. However I want to stop IE8 from being adverstied and for the life of me I…

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How to diagnose Windows hangs - which resource is blocked?
We have a Windows 7 Pro machine running Apache/php/postgres processing Ajax requests under a constant load (several every second). Its also running various other applications, which perform lots of disk writes.
Usually Ajax responses are received in…

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What can lock the only MySQL db process?
A plain old "delete single record" statement froze on me. Suspecting a (dead)lock issue, I checked the process list to see what blocks the delete. The delete statement was the only running db process and still its state was Locked. It remained in…

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Intercepting/blocking outgoing emails from mailx + phpmailer
I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to ideally intercept (if not block) mailx from sending emails?
The situation is that we have a development server (CentOS) that hosts the current version of our website. The system as part of its processes…

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