fail2ban, thats a good one, gotta save that link. try the gui to iptables; http://www.fwbuilder.org/ On Oct 9, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Toby Bluhm wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos