Re: targetted SSH bruteforce attacks

[Gary Baribault <gary () baribault net>]

I don't see what I'm going to gain .. host.deny blocks just fine
without risking my firewall.

Gary Baribault
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On 06/18/2010 01:38 PM, Ashish SHUKLA wrote:
> Gary Baribault writes:
>
> [...]
>
> >     Both of these systems are within one /21 and get attacked
> > regularly. I run Denyhosts on them, and update the central server once
> > an hour with attacking IPs, and obviously also download the public
> > hosts.deny list.
>
> How about combining denyhosts with netfilter through its plugin
mechanism ? In
> addition to adding entry to hosts.deny file, you can also play with
netfilter
> and 'recent' extension.
>
> Ashish

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