[CentOS] Simple way to banish IP addresses ?

[aurfalien at gmail.com]

fail2ban, thats a good one, gotta save that link.

try the gui to iptables;

http://www.fwbuilder.org/


On Oct 9, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Toby Bluhm wrote:

> Niki Kovacs wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just set up a web server... and my bandwidth is being eaten by some
>> chinese folks trying to brute-force-ssh their way into the machine.
>>
>> Is there a simple way to banish either single IP addresses or, maybe
>> even better, whole IP classes ? I know it's feasible with iptables,  
>> but
>> is there something more easily configurable ?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>
>
> Try fail2ban from rpmforge.
>
>
> -- 
> tkb
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