Off topic: Hacker

[Brian Gaynor]

On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 09:30 -0700, Rick Lim wrote:
> DenyHosts looks like a cool tool, I'm going to try it,
> Thanks for the link, much appreciated!!!!!!

Best of all it's already packaged for Fedora in Extras. I have been
using the iptables approach for a while now and am generally happy with
it. Recently I started to notice that some of these scripts will return
after a delay - an attempt to get around the temporary (time limited)
iptables block. I recently added denyhosts with a threshold one larger
than my iptables threshold. Now denyhosts catches the repeat offenders
and adds a permanent (or at least very long) block, and the one time
attacks are handled by iptables.

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Brian Gaynor
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