IP filtering and auto-banning
IP Filtering and Auto-Banning are essential tools in keeping out unwanted visitors to your site and are supported in the Professional and Enterprise MFT Editions.
Auto-Banning
Auto-Banning works by automatically banning IP addresses from connecting (for a pre-configured period of time) if they have failed to authenticate a certain number of times within a time period. Except in the Standard Edition, these details can be configured to suit customer preferences.
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Currently banned IP addresses can be viewed in the monitoring tab of CompleteFTP's manager application.
IP-Filtering
CompleteFTP has a very configurable IP Filtering interface, shown below.
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IP filtering operations that are supported include:
- Block connections from specific IP addresses (blacklisting)
- Accept connections only from specific IP addresses (whitelisting)
- Accept connections only from specific users at specific IP addresses
- Restrict some users to connect only from specific IP addresses