-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On
Behalf
Of Mr Gabriel Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 9:34 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] [WTA] Automatically blocking on failed login
Maybe he should go with Centos based solution, because moving what ever services are on his box to a smooth wall instance, is going to be murder!
I would still suggest fail2ban, I have hundreds of attempts against my
server farm all
day everyday, and the fail2ban scripts really help to stop my services
being tied up
denying logins or crashing, because each ip only gets three strikes, and is
out, and
that's across all servers. Also, my traffic logs are more accurate, and my
average
load dropped a bit too.
That depends on what he has on the current machine(s). YMMV, as always. 8-)