Andrew Morgan wrote: > I believe there are also some solutions to monitor > connections and automatically add IP addresses to the /etc/hosts.deny > file, but I've never used them myself. Fail2ban will do this (and more) see http://fail2ban.sourceforge.net/ If your system uses PAM, it's also worth taking a look at pam_abl - see http://www.hexten.net/wiki/index.php/Pam_abl Ben ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html