[SLL] bad login attempts
Clifford Snow
jcs at snowandsnow.us
Sun Jul 20 18:22:13 PDT 2008
On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 15:05 -0700, Paul A. Franz, P.E. wrote:
> Some days I get hit with many thousands of login probes. A clip of a few entries from
> the logs follows. I've got a couple of questions.
I'll echo the comments about denyhost. It just works. While it does
take a while to recognize attempts, once it does then they are blocked.
denyhost is configurable to how quickly they are blocked and how long -
days - months - forever. And it is easy to set up.
Clifford
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