That will block incoming connections. OP's problem of outgoing connections still remains.

What distro are you running, Carey?

On 2025-09-24 00:44, Steve Litt via Talk wrote:

Carey, I'm not an authority, but as far as I know, this kind of usage
comes from unauthorized servers. The way you stop unauthorized servers
dead in their tracks is to set your firewall so your only servers that
can hit the Internet are on port 21 (ssh). And if you don't ssh into
your Linux box, then set your firewall to block port 21 also.

SteveT

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