You were correct about the old package.  I updated to
denyhosts-2.6-20.el6.noarch and it's working beautifully.  Many thanks!!
I'm so happy to see the attempts get shot down.

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III <ti...@math.uh.edu>
wrote:

> >>>>> "SS" == Shiela Spaleta <shielaspal...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> SS> It's denyhosts 2.6 (pkg denyhosts-2.6-19.el6.1.noarch) on Centos 6.6
>
> You replied to me only.
>
> That version is pretty old.  2.10 is current.  I'm actually the Fedora
> maintainer of Denyhosts, and I did go ahead and build a newer version
> for EL7 as well because the package works fine there, but centos 6 is
> really old so and the newer package won't build.  I did, I think, push
> some security fixes to the old EL branches as well just so those folks
> wouldn't be screwed, but really, the EPEL maintainer needs to decide if
> he wants to bring those old releases forward or not, or someone else
> needs to step up to maintain those packages in EPEL.
>
> As for your particular issue, I know there were some fixes in a more
> recent vesion relating to blocking additional failed logins:
>
> https://github.com/denyhosts/denyhosts/issues/27
> https://github.com/denyhosts/denyhosts/issues/15
>
> Not sure if either of those apply to your situation, though.  All I can
> suggest, besides manually updating to a new version, is to compare the
> log entries which you believe should trigger blocking against the set of
> patterns that Denyhosts uses, and modify those patterns as necessary.
>
>  - J<
>
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