On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Gordon Henderson <gordon+aster...@drogon.net> wrote: > On Sat, 26 Nov 2011, C F wrote: > >> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Gordon Henderson >> <gordon+aster...@drogon.net> wrote: >>> >>> On Sat, 26 Nov 2011, Terry Brummell wrote: >>> >>>> Install & Configure Fail2Ban then the host will be blocked from >>>> connecting. And no, it's not new. >>> >>> I don't need Fail2Ban, thank you. But your advice might be useful to >>> others. >> >> Why is that? >> Even if they don't compromise an account they are still using your >> bandwidth and resources on your machine. > > Linux has excellent built-in subsystems to control firewalling and so on > without resorting to external programs. It's called iptables. If you know > how to use them, then using an external resource such as fail2ban is > unneccessary. So its not that you don't need it, but you use something else. BTW, you were just proven wrong, you need it for this hack.
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