[CentOS] Re: Access Threshhold by IP -- WAS: Crashing Nameservers

Sat Dec 31 06:28:45 UTC 2005
Bryan J. Smith <thebs413 at earthlink.net>

> 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?

Portsentry is how I deal with this for services that are TCP
Wrapper enabled.  I believe every vsftpd build I've seen on
every distro is so enabled.



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