27 Jan
2011
27 Jan
'11
4:57 p.m.
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 10:40 -0500, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
We also run fail2ban at work. Very nice, installs (along with shorewall), and creates a temporary blacklist, blocking an IP that's tried five, I think, times to break in. All configurable, btw.
Thanks. I'll add that to the list to do.
Restricted to a few IP addresses is good; the fewer the better.
Currently 3 static IPs.
<G>
I'm definitely not going to let the b**** get in easily :-) The Russians appear the worse with their port 445 scanning.
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With best regards,
Paul.
England,
EU.