On Monday 26 June 2006 08:11, Rob Sterenborg wrote: > On Mon, June 26, 2006 13:02, tyche 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? > > What type of logon? SSH, telnet, ...? sorry, what comes from typing email when your still asleep. most seem to be hitting my sshd, tho the username/password combo leads me to believe that the person is using a database to try to overload the server. killed some pids that where owned by sshd and they kept cropping up faster than i could kill them. > > There is a Netfilter authentication project called NuFW. > You can find it at: http://www.nufw.org/index.php3?lang=en. > Maybe it can help you accomplish what you need. thank you will look into that. tyche > > > Gr, > Rob -- 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
