On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:17:02 -0700 "David Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Over the last few weeks I've been getting numerous ports scans, each > from unique hosts. The situation is more of an annoyance than > anything else, but I would prefer not seeing or having to deal with > an extra 20-30K entries in my logs as was the case recently. > > I use pf for firewalling, and while it does offer different methods > (max-src-conn, max-src-conn-rate, etc.) for dealing with abusive > hosts, it doesn't seem to offer much in the way of dealing with > repeated blocked (non-stateful) connection attempts from a given host. > > Short of running something like snort, is there a suitable tool for > dealing with this? If not, I'll probably resort to running a cronjob > to parse the logfile and add the offending hosts manually. Add the abusive hosts to a table x, via max-src-conn, max-src-conn-rate, etc., then add near the top of your ruleset: block drop quick from <x> Hope it helps. Regards, Ghirai. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
