putting up (its built) a community forum vbulletin, running on a fedora OS ..the firewall is kind of confusing its called "linux firewall" and what i want to do is drop packets from a dos and set up an autoban script if we are dos'ed

the best i could do is allow a few trusted ips into the server and have it throw up a 404 for the general public

and......how important is this script?? whats the likelihood of this happening??

gonna be a small community based forum with some games and stuff, not for profit, just selfsupporting cause i always wanted to do it