hosts.deny script

yonas abraham yonas at erimp3.com
Thu Jan 26 16:47:16 UTC 2006


Steven J Lamb wrote:
> I am trying to create a script to block people using hosts.deny. I 
> realize that I should just block everyone and then open access for 
> those whom I know I trust but because of the nature of our network 
> this is not possible. basically I check log files for login attempts 
> every five minutes and block those that attempt to log in more than 3 
> times that day. this is all working great but my problem is this. I 
> sometimes get log entries with the symbolic address instead of the ip. 
> how do I convert these in a systematic way and not have a problem when 
> I run IPs through it. I'm sure this is an easy task but I don't now 
> what tool to use.
>
> thanks for your help
>
> Steven Lamb
>
> FC4
look at http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/
it works very well for me

-- 
Yonas Abraham, PhD
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