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Check for malicious IPs using DNS

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Re: Check for malicious IPs using DNS

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But why? Firehol seems entirely dead at this point.

Take a look at the bug reports on github, on the IP address change metric, and research the people behind it. They seem to have moved on. It's not being maintained, and still pulls from defunct lists, dead lists, and so on.

Re: Check for malicious IPs using DNS

#6
post #3

Interesting. Why not offer the db as files to download for faster local lookup though? That's what geoip databases do (for a price).

firehol seems to be unmaintained, running on auto, see my other post. However just google 'firehol', and you can download the lists.

(Such lists are trivial to use with ipset + linux, for example.)

Re: Check for malicious IPs using DNS

#7
I am not familiar with Firehol, so I might be missing something, but isn't this already solved in a (potentially) more powerful, mature and standardized way by DNS RPZ (Response Policy Zones, [1])? Well-established resolvers like Unbound fully support integrating multiple block lists (like oisd.nl, energized.pro, abuse.ch, etc), keeping them up-to-date via zone transfers or HTTPS download, see [2].

[1] https://www.isc.org/rpz/ [2] https://unbound.docs.nlnetlabs.nl/en/latest/topics/filtering...

Re: Check for malicious IPs using DNS

#9
post #7

I am not familiar with Firehol, so I might be missing something, but isn't this already solved in a (potentially) more powerful, mature and standardized way by DNS RPZ (Response Policy Zones, [1])? Well-established resolvers like Unbound fully support integrating multiple block lists (like oisd.nl, energized.pro, abuse.ch, etc), keeping them up-to-date via zone transfers or HTTPS download, see [2]. [1] https://www.is…

Yeah, it’s just a toy project, nothing much! Thanks for the references though, I’ll read it up :)
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