repeated failed logons and ignoring them

[Shane Spencer]

fail2ban is a configuratble daemon for doing just this.. it has a good
default config for ssh and some templates for apache/etc...

Shane

On 6/26/06, tyche <tyche at ica.net> 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?
>
> tia
>
> tyche
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