Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I just set up a web server... and my bandwidth is being eaten by some > chinese folks trying to brute-force-ssh their way into the machine. > > Is there a simple way to banish either single IP addresses or, maybe > even better, whole IP classes ? I know it's feasible with iptables, but > is there something more easily configurable ? > > Cheers, > Try fail2ban from rpmforge. -- tkb