Re: Dealing with brute force attacks

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On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Bill Campbell <centos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, May 14, 2009, James B. Byrne wrote:
>Over the weekend one of our servers at a remote location was
>hammered by an IP originating in mainland China.  This attack was
>only noteworthy in that it attempted to connect to our pop3 service.

You might look at fail2ban which can automatically create
iptables blocks when things like this happen.

Bill
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fail2ban does a good job of automatically blocking any IP which constantly tries to login to any service with an incorrect password. 

Another option, with even more control, is ConfigServer firewall (or other firewalls), which can monitor various aspects of your network and block unwanted users on demand. 

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