invalid login attempts not refused using deny hosts and conf of denyhost not working as expected

[Tapas Mishra]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
> On 28 October 2010 11:18, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am using denyhosts on a server ( I know IPTABLE rate limiting etc
>> just testing this one)
>> so in a config file
>> /etc/denyhosts.conf
>> the following value is set
>> DENY_THRESHOLD_INVALID = 3
>>
>
> Did you retsart denyhosts after changing this value?
>
> sudo service denyhosts restart
>
Obviously.In fact to be sure for every thing I rebooted the system
(though not needed)