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On 10/10/05, Christophe Garault <christophe@×××××××.org> wrote: |
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> This is exactly what fail2ban do. It's a very nice script written in |
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> python that can block an IP for an amount of time after several login |
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> attempts. It can monitor ssh and apache. Look at |
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> http://sourceforge.net/projects/fail2ban or directly emerge it as it is |
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> allready in Portage. I have it running for a couple of months and I must |
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> say that I'm very satisfied. |
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I don't see it in portage, is it under a different name? I see |
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denyhosts in portage, but that one doesn't seem to remove older bans |
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it added to the hosts.deny file. I'm not sure yet if Fail2Ban will do |
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this but Christophe Garault suggested it does. |
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