[CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 & 'string-less' IP tables

John R Pierce wrote:
> On 08/31/11 7:22 AM, Always Learning wrote:
>> In the current 4,000 to 6,000 daily hits, the lunatic uses
>>
>> 	login.php
>> 	contact.php
>> 	forgotten_password.php
>
> your 'lunatic' aka 'hacker' is undoubtably a blind script ('bot')
> running on distributed previously hacked hosts, and probing a long long
> list of targets of which your hosts only a tiny part of.   4000 hits a
> day to 404 pages is background noise.
>
Maybe not, for a small website. However, let me re-suggest fail2ban, with
three lines from one of our config files:
failregex = <HOST> -.*"GET .*(php|pma|PMA|p/m/a|db|sql|admin).*/(config/c 
      onfig\.inc|main)\.php.*".*404.*
         ^<HOST> -.*"GET .*(phpmyadmin).*\.php.*".*404.*
         ^<HOST> -.*"GET /w00tw00t\.at

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