Kai Schaetzl <maillists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> How should portsentry help in this case?
> It makes only sense to use it for ports that aren't bound
> to a service.
Excuse me? That's just _1_ of portsentry's various
capabilities.
Portsentry _can_ bind itself to a port being service by
another program.
> Or are you talking of a newer "portsentry" I don't know
of?
> (AFAIK development of the sentry family was discontinued
> years ago.)
I don't deny that the Sentry Tools (currently 1.2 on
SourceForge) are getting aged. But portsentry is still a
nice tool for quickly blacklisting IPs after several failed
login attempts.
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Bryan J. Smith Professional, Technical Annoyance b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx http://thebs413.blogspot.com
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