[CentOS] [WTA] Automatically blocking on failed login

[Sorin Srbu]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf
>Of Mr Gabriel
>Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 9:34 AM
>To: CentOS mailing list
>Subject: Re: [CentOS] [WTA] Automatically blocking on failed login
>
>Maybe he should go with Centos based solution, because moving what ever
>services are on his box to a smooth wall instance, is going to be murder!
>
>I would still suggest fail2ban, I have hundreds of attempts against my
server farm all
>day everyday, and the fail2ban scripts really help to stop my services
being tied up
>denying logins or crashing, because each ip only gets three strikes, and is
out, and
>that's across all servers. Also, my traffic logs are more accurate, and my
average
>load dropped a bit too.

That depends on what he has on the current machine(s). YMMV, as always. 8-)

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/Sorin
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