Author: Graeme Hilton Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] confused ssh newbie
On 22 June 2011 09:12, Peter Andrijeczko <peter.andrijeczko@???> wrote: > There's other things you can do that help - I can't remember the application
> names because I don't use them but there are daemon applications that
> monitor for brute force attempts and if, say, more than 10 come from a
> particular IP address within the space of a minute, it can block that IP
> address temporarily or permanently by using TCP Wrappers or an iptables
> firewall rule.
There's a "fail2ban" script or package available somewhere that does
what you describe.
