On Wednesday 21 January 2009, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Paul Hartman wrote:

> The most recently denied host from this afternoon made over 200 login
> attempts in a span of 17 minutes before denyhosts caught it.

You may want to have a look at fail2ban.  I recall it kicks in much faster.

However, the best approach to this would probably be to use iptables and set a 
limit as to how many connections an unknown host could start.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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