By Ankush Gupta
Actually, I want to block all bot IPs from visiting my webpage. Also want to block particular IP sets.
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Youtube tutorial of how to whitelist IP address with Digital Ocean’s firewall: https://snipp.ly/l/OjLdg
Whitelist can be better in some cases then blacklisting IPs so here is a video for that just in case that can be of use to you in your situation
The simplest way to block specific IP address or ranges of them would be to set up a basic firewall using UFW. It is included with Ubuntu by default.
You can then block a specific IP address by running:
- sudo ufw deny from XXX.XXX.XX.XX
For a deeper dive into using UFW, check out:
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