annoying brute force attack attempt using ssh

[Scott van Looy]

May 15 12:03:52 novak sshd[21429]: Connection from 193.239.125.119 port 
53465
May 15 12:03:54 novak sshd[21429]: Invalid user student from 
193.239.125.119
May 15 12:03:54 novak sshd[21430]: input_userauth_request: invalid user 
student
May 15 12:03:56 novak sshd[21429]: Failed password for invalid user 
student from 193.239.125.119 port 53465 ssh2
May 15 12:03:56 novak sshd[21430]: Received disconnect from 
193.239.125.119: 11: Bye Bye
May 15 12:03:56 novak sshd[21431]: Connection from 193.239.125.119 port 
53836
May 15 12:03:57 novak sshd[21431]: Invalid user market from 
193.239.125.119
May 15 12:03:57 novak sshd[21432]: input_userauth_request: invalid user 
market
May 15 12:04:00 novak sshd[21431]: Failed password for invalid user market 
from 193.239.125.119 port 53836 ssh2
May 15 12:04:00 novak sshd[21432]: Received disconnect from 
193.239.125.119: 11: Bye Bye
May 15 12:04:00 novak sshd[21433]: Connection from 193.239.125.119 port 
54204
May 15 12:04:01 novak sshd[21433]: Invalid user style from 193.239.125.119
May 15 12:04:01 novak sshd[21434]: input_userauth_request: invalid user 
style
May 15 12:04:03 novak sshd[21433]: Failed password for invalid user style 
from 193.239.125.119 port 54204 ssh2
May 15 12:04:03 novak sshd[21434]: Received disconnect from 
193.239.125.119: 11: Bye Bye


Lots and lots. Around 1 every 5 seconds.

So I ran
iptables -A INPUT -s 193.239.125.119 -j DROP
and was surprised to see them attacks continue
Ran iptables -L just to make sure my rule was there and it was
in the end had to use hosts.deny to block the IP

Anyone got any ideas why?

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