Denyhosts

[Tony Arnold]

Scott,

Scott Abbey wrote:
> Brian Fahrlander wrote:
>>     Is there some reason there isn't a copy of this in a repo? I can't
>> even find a .deb for it, though I'd swear I installed it that way the
>> other day.  No, wait- that was one of the remaining Fedora systems...
>>
>>     This is a really useful tool...and it addresses a growing problem
>> (bruteforce SSH and other attacks); I was just hoping I'd overlooked it
>> somewhere.

You might also want to look at fail2ban, which I think is also in the
repositories. It does the same job, but manipulates IP tables instead of
using hosts.deny. I think it's a bit better at cleaning up blocked IP
addresses too.

Regards,
Tony.
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