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From: Christophe Garault <christophe@×××××××.org>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] [OT?] automatically firewalling off IPs
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:55:52
Message-Id: 4340E36E.6020801@garault.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-security] [OT?] automatically firewalling off IPs by Jeremy Brake
1 Jeremy Brake a écrit :
2
3 >Hey all,
4 >
5 >I'm looking for an app/script which can monitor for failed ssh logins,
6 >and block using IPTables for $time after $number of failed logins (an
7 >exclusion list would be handy as well) so that I can put a quick stop to
8 >these niggly brute-force ssh "attacks" I seem to be getting more and
9 >more often.
10 >
11 >Anyone have any ideas?
12 >
13 >
14 Yep: emerge fail2ban (http://sourceforge.net/projects/fail2ban).
15 It's an excellent script written in python that can monitor all
16 unsuccessfull logins (ssh, apache)
17 There's a fail2ban.conf file where you can define many options to
18 protect you from a Dos.
19
20 >Thanks, Jeremy B
21 >
22 >
23 Have a nice day.
24
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26 Christophe Garault
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Re: [gentoo-security] [OT?] automatically firewalling off IPs Jerry Eastmanhouser <fuct.it@×××××.com>