Firstly I'm a new subscriber so I must say I have been using DenyHosts for quite some time and have found it to be a really useful and simple to configure piece of software.
I realize it hasn't been updated in quite some time but this probably just means it does exactly what is needed of it with little fuss or problems. Recently however I noticed a problem which caused me to look closer at what was going on - the initial problem is probably a config thing that I'll mention in a later email. The other issue I discovered that I mention in the subject line already seems to be in the bug database twice: https://sourceforge.net/p/denyhosts/bugs/32/ https://sourceforge.net/p/denyhosts/bugs/43/ Although, it seems the root of the problem has not been understood. I also came across the problem here: http://serverfault.com/q/647153/310481 What appears to be happening is that during LoginAttempt.add() in DenyHosts/loginattempt.py if any of the AGE_RESET_XXX configs are set and there is a valid host then .agg_count() gets called for the host in the specific __abusive_hosts_XXX set regardless of whether that host exists in that list or not. The result being a zero count entry for that host in a list it possibly does not really belong in. The downside to this seems only to be large hosts files and time wasted. Maybe there is a reason for this action, if so I'd love to have it explained before I attempt to fix this inefficiency and horribly break something else in a perfectly stable bit of code ;) Cheers /dan -- Daniel Sutcliffe <d...@chairfour.com> Chair Four Development Group LLC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Denyhosts-user mailing list Denyhosts-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/denyhosts-user
