Allow IPs?

[Actualiz]

Hi guys I'm very new here in VPS, I was using shared server but now I have VPS.

My question is the following:

One of my clients for some reason last week had a problem with his outlook and it was causing BFD (Brute force detection) to block his IP so I have to go and unblock the IP everything that this was happening, and it was like 4 or 5 times a day so it was driving me crazy.

now that I'm using VPS is there any way to ALLOW his 5 IPs address so it doesn't matter what he does he's not going to get block? it's like make an exception on Firewall and BFD to allow his 5 IPs always even if he's trying to hack the server hahaha j/k but I don't want to be dealing with him all this week for the same problem.

He has 5 Ips like 69.78.122.62 - 66

I need to make an exception with those IP's even if they are detected by BFD.
BTW what do I have to do if he gets block by BFD ? I don't know what do I have to do if this happen?

But the best solution for me is to make like a rule in the server that everything from those IPs has to be acepted..

Guys I will really appreciate if you can help me with this.

Rgds,
Cesar.

[Smithjp]

You can add the IPs in allow_hosts.rules in apf and the Ips will not be blocked again.

[Actualiz]

Smith can you please give me detailed instructions of how do I do that?

i.e. : Go to your VPS or WHM and then click on this option, then type this and then do this and that's it.

Thanks Smith I'll be waiting..

CEsar.

[Smithjp]

Smith can you please give me detailed instructions of how do I do that?

If you are running APF version 0.9.6 then you can simply login to your VPS via SSH and issue the following command:

apf -a 69.78.122.62

which will add the IP in allow_hosts.rules file. However if you are running any other version and -a option is not available in apf then you can directly add the IP in /etc/apf/allow_hosts.rules file and restart the apf as service apf restart afterwards.