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On Jun 20, 2010, at 6:43 PM, kashani wrote: |
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> On 6/16/2010 5:26 PM, Rod wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> Does anyone know how to block, or auto programs in Gentoo to limit or |
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>> stop people scanning for a user/password hacking on your firewall? |
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>> Besides disabling those ports, I still need the port accessable from the |
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>> outside, and I guess they'd just try imap if pop was blocked. |
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>> I'm running iptables, postfix & courier |
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> Have you considered changing over to pop3-ssl and imap-ssl? I fully switched over about six years ago and nearly every job I've had since has used SSL as well. I'd still recommend plain imap to be open on localhost for webmail to interact with it, but you should have far less problems. And less change of sniffers pulling user/pass from wireless connections in cafes. |
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Try fail2ban |
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