Disable whm. subdomains but leave cpanel. subdomains in place

[driverC]

I am having a lot of trouble with Brute Force attacks against my servers. Worst of all WHM's brute force protection is locking root access not only via WHM but also via SSH leaving the sysadmin unable to access the server until the brute force database is resetting itself. (Of course from a security point of view this is a good thing)

Now to prevent this from happening the WHM ports (2086/2087) have been restricted to our own IP addresses. However, hackers are using the whm. subdomains to circumvene the firewall block on 2086/2087.

Disabling proxy subdomains altogether is not an option as many customers need their cpanel. and webmail. addresses. What we want to do is disable the whm. subdomains but leave the cpanel. and webmail. subdomains in place.

Changing httpd.conf has only temporarily resolved the problem as WHM is undoing these changes.

Is it possible to disable whm. subdomains while leaving cpanel. and webmail. subdomains in place ?

If not, please consider this a feature request.

[cPanelTristan]

Hello driverC,

You could follow similar directions to those I have at this location:

http://forums.cpanel.net/f5/you-can-...tml#post801711

Basically, rather than removing the webmail entry, you would remove the whm entry and hard-code the other entries into the zone file templates. If you have any questions or issues doing this, please let me know.

Thanks.

[driverC]

Hi Tristan,

thank you for your response...but wouldn't this only remove the DNS entries for the proxy subdomains ? Just asking because in this case a hacker could still access the subdomains by creating an entry in his computer's hosts file.