> Thanks. Hoped you had found the silver bullet though. :) Nope, sadly. Although I haven't attempted it myself, I've been wondering of late if using tcp wrappers in combination with httpd would be effective/advisable. On our FreeBSD systems, we use a little python script in combination with hosts.allow that effectively blackholes all those automated ssh brute force attempts you see from time to time. Has anyone on the list wrapped httpd? -G --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx