On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 08:07 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > On 08/31/11 7:22 AM, Always Learning wrote: > > In the current 4,000 to 6,000 daily hits, the lunatic uses > > > > login.php > > contact.php > > forgotten_password.php > > your 'lunatic' aka 'hacker' is undoubtably a blind script ('bot') > running on distributed previously hacked hosts, and probing a long long > list of targets of which your hosts only a tiny part of. 4000 hits a > day to 404 pages is background noise. I would like to use the facilities in the excellent Centos operating system to reduce hacking attacks. Implementing an IP Tables string facility is a useful learning experience. When that works, I'll try 'recent'. Dangerous to ignore any background noise - far better to firmly shut the door and fill-in all known holes. Paul. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos