bruteforce protection howto

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 23:17 +0100, Vadkan Jozsef wrote:
> Two pc's:
> 
> 1 - router
> 2 - logger
> 
> Situation: someone tries to bruteforce into a server, and the logger
> get's a log about it [e.g.: ssh login failed].
> 
> What's the best method to ban that ip [what is bruteforcig a server]
> what was logged on the logger?
> I need to ban the ip on the router pc.
> 
> How can i send the bad ip to the router, to ban it?
> 
> Just run a cronjob, and e.g.: scp the list of ip's from the logger to
> the router, then ban the ip from the list on the router pc?
> 
> Or is there any "offical" method for this?
> 
> I'm just asking for docs/howtos.. :\ to get started..
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personally, I always use 'denyhosts' package which can be either single
system or can share data with other systems.

yum search denyhosts

Craig


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