Hi Michael,

On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 03:02 +0000, Michael Thompson wrote:

> Sorry, should have looked before posting!
> 
> I dont block any more, no point. The IP's change so frequently, I have 
> never seen the same IP in any multiple attempts.
> 

Yeah they change but they continue till I block them (lasts couple of
days some times).

> But if you want to use that code, it will search the message logs for 
> Invalid users and add them to a blacklist. You should create the chain 
> first, and call it from your INPUT chain.
> 
> /sbin/iptables -N BLACKLIST
> /sbin/iptables -I INPUT 1 -p TCP --dport 22 -j BLACKLIST
> 

Did that thanks.

> Just call it from cron whenever is suitable for you. If you start 
> getting iptables resource unavailable errors, remove the zcat lines, so 
> that it is only searching the current log file.
> 
Will keep that in mind.

> Better than having to run this code, run your SSHD Deamon on a 
> non-standard port, such as 222, the scans will stop immeadiatly.

problem here is I usually access it from work and there's hardly any
port open on my company firewall.. I can only go outbound on 20,
22,25,80, 443, 110, 143 and all these ports are already in use on my
box. So, I have no other option but to run ssh on port 22 only.

R'twick

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