Randall Hobbs wrote: > -----Original Message----- > >>> Better would be a rule to forward their connection to a honeypot / tarpit >>> > box that would do what > >>> you want ... tie up their connection for a while. >>> > > You don't have to have it forward to a separate box for the tarpit to work. > Tarpit rules can be placed into the firewall so that any packets from a > particular host (or network) get tarpitted, while allowing everyone else's > to come through to the listening daemon. You just have to give it a specific > source and port. The following would tarpit port 25 (TCP) for the IP address > 99.99.99.99, while allowing everyone else through to the listening SMTP > daemon: > > iptables -I INPUT -s 99.99.99.99 -p tcp --dport 25 -j TARPIT > Would you please give details on a TARPIT rule? > So it's just a matter of adding rules per each host that causes a problem. > Is there a risk of self DDOS'ing ? kfx.