[CentOS] Dealing with brute force attacks

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, May 14, 2009, James B. Byrne wrote:
>Over the weekend one of our servers at a remote location was
>hammered by an IP originating in mainland China.  This attack was
>only noteworthy in that it attempted to connect to our pop3 service.

You might look at fail2ban which can automatically create
iptables blocks when things like this happen.

Bill
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