Chris Rapier wrote in <98ef47a5-b8d3-4677-acb6-ed424627c820@xxxxxxx>: |I get that. We use fail2ban here because we've a number of ways people |can connect to our systems so we needed something that was more |flexible. It's also nice that it just bans the IP so it can't keep |hammering the service. | |I think it depends on your use case. That said, I understand why some |people might not want to use yet another process when all they are |trying to do is ban people spamming your sshd process. No promises but |we can look into it. I don't think the actually banning part would be |all that hard. It's everything that goes along with it in terms of |managing things and making sure it would be performant enough in high |volume scenarios. No need to look, blacklist now blocklist daemon of NetBSD and FreeBSD already have the necessary patch. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev