Alex A. Smith MCP wrote: > As long as they dont know your password, username and it isnt an easy > dictonary password. > (which you said it isnt), you should be quite secure enuf :) I see these all > the time on my > companys servers and we are yet to get anyone even get the right username. > > I dont know if it works on gentoo as i havent tried it yet, but on my Fedora > boxes i use a > program called BFD - Brute Force Detector* (Needs APF**) and it automaticly > bans the ip from > the box using IPTables. Works quite well. > > (At this point I'll point out the normal about I tried it on my gentoo dev > box and it floored > all contact with the outter world, try at your own risk) > > * http://www.rfxnetworks.com/bfd.php > ** http://www.rfxnetworks.com/apf.php > > ----- > Alex A. Smith MCP > ASMHosting.com Owner
Hehe... I would strongly suggest _against_ anything like this. Thats just a Denial of Service waiting to happen. Say someone spoofs _your_ IP address, and then tries to 'hack' you. Woopsie. Locked out of your own box. Not fun, not fun at all... -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled ] [Location ] :: [Israel ] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5 ] [Keyserver ] :: [keyserver.kjsl.com] encrypted/signed plain text preferred
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