hosts.deny script

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Thu Jan 26 17:13:43 UTC 2006


On 1/26/06, Steven J Lamb <redhattedsheep at adiis.net> wrote:
>
> I realize that I may be suffering from Re-create the wheel disease but I
> have already re written the script partially as an exercise and partly as
> wanting the power to customize it. what I really need at this point is a way
> to turn symbolic addresses into IPs and leave IPs alone from a command line.
> but I don't know of one that works easily. I do appreciate the suggestions
> though.
>

Fair enough, if you happen to have the package mysql-server, it comes with
an app called /usr/bin/resolveip which would do that task.

But more likey you will have the syslinux package which comes with
/usr/bin/gethostip.

Example:

resoveip -s pembo13.com
gethostip -d pemb13.com

----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com>
> *To:* For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 26, 2006 10:48 AM
> *Subject:* Re: hosts.deny script
>
>
>
> On 1/26/06, Steven J Lamb <redhattedsheep at adiis.net> 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
> >
>
>  I think you may be tring to create something like this:
> http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/
>
> FC4
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