Establishing security for IP addresses

IP addresses are numerical labels assigned to a device on a network, which are used to access the server. However, automated attacks such as worms scan ranges of IP addresses to exploit the known security flaws. Allowing access to a server through its IP address increases exposure to these attacks. To reduce this risk, the server can be configured to respond to requests made to the FQDN only.

To protect against automated attacks that scan large ranges of IP addresses, update the server configuration of denyIPAddress in the eqaprof.env file. Specify the value as true to deny all IP addresses or false to allow all IP addresses. For example, , denyIPAddress=true.