Re: Restricting source with dDNS (dynamic DNS)

[email protected] (Peter N. M. Hansteen)
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.pf
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jim Flowers <[email protected]> writes:

> To lock down services (particularly ssh) as tightly as possible, I like to allow
> administrative access to a firewall only from specific ip addresses.

makes sense.

> Unfortunately, some of the administrators are working from dynamic ip addresses
> that change with some frequency.
>
> Is there a straightforward way to incorporate dynamic ip source addresses in the
> pf ruleset?

I'd say this sounds like a situation where authpf could come in quite handy.  

- P
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