On 10/10/2013 09:01 AM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
> We get a lot of attempts to guess weak ftp passwords on our servers. A tool 
> which we've used before (and is really nice) is fail2ban. In response to a 
> certain type or number of failed attempts, it can run a script (for example, 
> to load a firewall rule blocking that user).
>
> However, we'd ideally like to add those rules at the firewall rather than the 
> individual ftp servers. Has anyone attempted something similar. Ideally, an 
> API in pfSense which allowed us to send through ip addresses to add to a 
> list. They would be added to a deny table and purged after some period of 
> time.
>
> Does this sound useful? Has anyone managed a similar problem?
>
> Ari
hi ari

this quite easy to achive -- ip address that are caught by fail2ban can
be used by pfBlocker -- install the pfBlocker package on pfSense, and
then do a bit of scripting to get the banned ip addresses uploaded via
http to pfBlocker.

cheers

m
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