Anti-brute force to those using firewalld?

[David Mehler]

Hello,

Thank you. I'm referring to ssh and or smtp bot probes of a system.
I'd like to block these out.

Thanks.
Dave.


On 3/6/14, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 11:20:16 -0500,
>    David Mehler <dave.mehler at gmail.com> wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>To those running firewalld as opposed to the older iptables static
>>firewall setup, FC20, what do you use for stopping anti brute force or
>>port knockings on your systems? I use to use fail2ban but it appears
>>it does not work with firewalld.
>
> Strong passwords.
> Limited source IP addresses.
> Requiring a key and password.
>