3 Jan
2006
3 Jan
'06
11:29 p.m.
Kai Schaetzl maillists@conactive.com wrote:
How should portsentry help in this case? It makes only sense to use it for ports that aren't bound to a service.
Excuse me? That's just _1_ of portsentry's various capabilities. Portsentry _can_ bind itself to a port being service by another program.
Or are you talking of a newer "portsentry" I don't know
of?
(AFAIK development of the sentry family was discontinued years ago.)
I don't deny that the Sentry Tools (currently 1.2 on SourceForge) are getting aged. But portsentry is still a nice tool for quickly blacklisting IPs after several failed login attempts.
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