The apf firewall with bfd brute force detection will parse your /var/log/secure file and insert a block on any offending IP that tries repeated attacks according to your configuration. This checking is done every minute and it can email you a warning. I get these a few times a day and currently have almost 800 IPs blocked.
Then of course if someone in a company that uses your system wants to make life difficult for colleagues, they can always promote a block but since you can keep the emails for ever and they list all the accounts tried, you have the evidence...:-)
Have a look at http://www.r-fx.org and follow the links to apf and bfd. The software is available under GPL but there is also a service that can be purchased at reasonable rates.
Best wishes
John
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On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, John Hinton wrote:
John Hinton wrote:
Had two nameservers crash in the last few hours... This 'never' happens! On the console was
sent an invalid ICMP type 3, code 3 error to a broadcast: 255.255.255.255 on eth0
sent an invalid ICMP type 3, code 3 error to a broadcast: 255.255.254.255 on eth0
with the IP address of the offender? in front of that line. Any ideas?
Best, John Hinton
And a bit more info.
Seems that maybe it just happened to be nameservers. Found this in the logs repeated over and over for thousands of lines.
Dec 30 16:00:24 cavebear vsftpd(pam_unix)[29588]: check pass; user unknown Dec 30 16:00:24 cavebear vsftpd(pam_unix)[29588]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=210.95.162.215 Dec 30 16:00:26 cavebear vsftpd(pam_unix)[29590]: check pass; user unknown Dec 30 16:00:26 cavebear vsftpd(pam_unix)[29590]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=210.95.162.215 Dec 30 16:00:26 cavebear vsftpd(pam_unix)[29588]: check pass; user unknown Dec 30 16:00:26 cavebear vsftpd(pam_unix)[29588]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=210.95.162.215 Dec 30 16:00:29 cavebear vsftpd(pam_unix)[29588]: check pass; user unknown Dec 30 16:00:29 cavebear vsftpd(pam_unix)[29588]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=210.95.162.215 Dec 30 16:00:29 cavebear vsftpd(pam_unix)[29590]: check pass; user unknown Dec 30 16:00:29 cavebear vsftpd(pam_unix)[29590]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=210.95.162.215 Dec 30 16:00:32 cavebear vsftpd(pam_unix)[29588]: check pass; user unknown Dec 30 16:00:32 cavebear vsftpd(pam_unix)[29588]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=210.95.162.215 Dec 30 16:00:32 cavebear vsftpd(pam_unix)[29590]: check pass; user unknown Dec 30 16:00:32 cavebear vsftpd(pam_unix)[29590]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=210.95.162.215 Dec 30 16:00:35 cavebear vsftpd(pam_unix)[29588]: check pass; user unknown Dec 30 16:00:35 cavebear vsftpd(pam_unix)[29588]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=210.95.162.215 Dec 30 16:00:35 cavebear vsftpd(pam_unix)[29590]: check pass; user unknown Dec 30 16:00:35 cavebear vsftpd(pam_unix)[29590]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=210.95.162.215 Dec 30 16:00:37 cavebear vsftpd(pam_unix)[29588]: check pass; user unknown Dec 30 16:00:37 cavebear vsftpd(pam_unix)[29588]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=210.95.162.215 Dec 30 16:00:38 cavebear vsftpd(pam_unix)[29590]: check pass; user unknown Dec 30 16:00:38 cavebear vsftpd(pam_unix)[29590]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=210.95.162.215 Dec 30 16:00:40 cavebear vsftpd(pam_unix)[29588]: check pass; user unknown Dec 30 16:00:40 cavebear vsftpd(pam_unix)[29588]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=210.95.162.215
Seems I'm experiencing a DoS against vsftp login. Anybody got a good way to limit the number of failed login attempts by one IP address?
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