[Linux] Firewall Rule or App?

[Nicholas Saraniti]

I've been using deny hosts on a machine that I have to leave port 22
open on the firewall, and have been very happy with it... Works great
and isn't too much of a resource hog.... Your hosts.deny file can get
huge at time thought so you may want to watch that and setup deny-hosts
to clear it every now and then or set a max size... Using it in
combination with Tripwire etc allows me to sleep better at night...


Robert Citek wrote:
> Related links:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DenyHosts
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlockHosts
> http://www.fail2ban.org/
>
> Whichever you try and use, please let us know how it goes.
>
> Regards,
> - Robert
>
> Nicholas Saraniti wrote:
>   
>> yes, it's called deny hosts
>> *deny**hosts*.sourceforge.net
>>
>> Joey wrote:
>>     
>>> I remember a while back ago someone had a small script which would
>>> detect someone trying to hack into a server and block them for a set
>>> period of time automatically.
>>>       
>
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