>-----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-) -- /Sorin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5110 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100525/5c666367/attachment-0005.bin>