Richard Marza writes:

> I recently check my log files and discovered that there was a
>  dictionary attack attempt on my daemons. sshd and vsftpd were the
>  primary targets. Is there a script or tool to block the offending IP
>  addresses using iptables. Something that checks to see if a minimum of
>  attempts has occured and blocks them indefinitely based on that?

I am using net-analyzer/fail2ban for this. There is also app-
admin/denyhosts, which gets a list of offending IPs from a server. But it 
may only be for SSH.

        Wonko

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