Re: [gentoo-user] User password scanning on pop3

2010-06-21 Thread kashani
On 6/20/2010 5:06 PM, deface wrote: Try fail2ban How about reading the whole thread before posting a one liner? kashani

Re: [gentoo-user] User password scanning on pop3

2010-06-20 Thread kashani
On 6/16/2010 5:26 PM, Rod wrote: Hi, Does anyone know how to block, or auto programs in Gentoo to limit or stop people scanning for a user/password hacking on your firewall? Besides disabling those ports, I still need the port accessable from the outside, and I guess they'd just try imap if

Re: [gentoo-user] User password scanning on pop3

2010-06-20 Thread Rod
On 17/06/2010 10:26 AM, Rod wrote: Hi, Does anyone know how to block, or auto programs in Gentoo to limit or stop people scanning for a user/password hacking on your firewall? Hi, Just a update, I found the program I had running Fail2Ban was broken, so I have fixed that,

Re: [gentoo-user] User password scanning on pop3

2010-06-20 Thread deface
On Jun 20, 2010, at 6:43 PM, kashani wrote: On 6/16/2010 5:26 PM, Rod wrote: Hi, Does anyone know how to block, or auto programs in Gentoo to limit or stop people scanning for a user/password hacking on your firewall? Besides disabling those ports, I still need the port accessable

[gentoo-user] User password scanning on pop3

2010-06-16 Thread Rod
Hi, Does anyone know how to block, or auto programs in Gentoo to limit or stop people scanning for a user/password hacking on your firewall? Besides disabling those ports, I still need the port accessable from the outside, and I guess they'd just try imap if pop was blocked.

Re: [gentoo-user] User password scanning on pop3

2010-06-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Rod writes: Does anyone know how to block, or auto programs in Gentoo to limit or stop people scanning for a user/password hacking on your firewall? I am using net-analyzer/fail2ban. That can block an IP after some unsuccessful login attempts. This helps a lot, but not against bot nets,