annoying brute force attack attempt using ssh

[Bill Crawford]

2008/5/15 Łukasz Jagiełło <jagiello.lukasz at gmail.com>:

>> 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?

You appended the rule, AFTER the ones which allow ssh through?