annoying brute force attack attempt using ssh

[Scott van Looy]

Today Bill Crawford did spake thusly:

> 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?

That should work though IIRC...I'm stopping a specific IP from 
connecting

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