fail2ban is a configuratble daemon for doing just this.. it has a good default config for ssh and some templates for apache/etc... Shane On 6/26/06, tyche <tyche@xxxxxxx> wrote:
over the last few days, my server has been attacked. i would like to limit remote logon attempts by address so that if someone tries to logon from an ip address and fails 3 times, my computer will ignore repeated attempts from that ip address. any idea how to make a rule for this? tia tyche -- Win9x A 32 bit extention to a 16 bit patch for a 8 bit operating system on a 4 bit machine by a 2 bit company that cant stand 1 bit of competition ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Email is powered by ICA Canada OnLine http://www.icacanadaonline.com