I think that problem was addressed in the DenyHost fork of the project last year, though I could be mistaken. Perhaps you could try v3.0 from the http://denyhost.sf.net website and report back on whether you still encounter the problem?
Jesse On 30/09/15 09:05 AM, Daniel Sutcliffe wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Denyhosts-user mailing list Denyhosts-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/denyhosts-user
