phracker / spamhaus

A shell script that grabs the latest Spamhaus DROP & EDROP Lists and adds them to iptables.

Spamhaus DROP/EDROP Lists for iptables

A shell script that grabs the latest Spamhaus DROP and EDROP Lists, then adds them to iptables.

Installation

# Download the script.
curl -LO https://github.com/phracker/spamhaus/raw/master/spamhaus.sh
# Make it executable.
chmod +x spamhaus.sh
# Execute it.
sudo ./spamhaus.sh
# Confirm the rules have been added.
sudo iptables -L Spamhaus -n

Automatic Updating

In order for the list to automatically update each day, you'll need to set up a cron job using crontab -e.

This example rule will execute the script once daily at 3am.

0 3 * * * /path/to/spamhaus.sh

Troubleshooting

If you need to remove all the Spamhaus rules, run the following:

sudo iptables -F Spamhaus
sudo iptables -F SpamhausAct