Timothy Murphy wrote:
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Every few days I see in the logwatch on my Centos-5.5 web-server what seems like a rather feeble break-in attempt.
In fact, I'm not clear how one should deal with logwatch entries in general. Is there any document giving advice on this?
We run fail2ban. It blocks a given IP for so long after so many (3? 5?) failed attempts to break in. It also does a whois on the IP, which is a little more info.
Thanks, I'll try that. I had heard of fail2ban , but was slightly put off by the strange name; what exactly is the name meant to convey?
They fail to log in successfully enough times, they're banned by firewall rules.
*heh* If odd names put you off, you probably shouldn't be playing with any version of *Nix.... <g> fail2ban is pretty self-explanatory, compared to, say, bonobo, or anaconda, or gnome....
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