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Version: v7

KB-9004

How to use Geo fencing to block country specific traffic?​

Problem Statement​

User wants to block traffic coming from specific countries on Haltdos WAF Community Edition.

Solution​

User can enable geo-fencing on Haltdos WAF CE and SSL offloading by adding free SSL certificate provided Haltdos WAF CE or the can use their own certificate on WAF community edition. They need to follow below steps to generate certificate and enable SSL offloading for the application on-boarded on the Haltdos WAF Community Edition.

  1. In the first step user need to log in to the Haltdos WAF CE Web UI console using following URL in any web browser.

(https://<'machineIP>:9000)

Note

User can log in first time with credential which they have set at the time of registering the license.

  1. User need to go to following path : Home > WAF > Geo Fencing. Under blacklisted countries option, user can add the countries that need to be blacklisted.

Geo Fencing

In this way, any Haltdos WAF CE user can enable geo fencing on their WAF.