Re: [Astlinux-users] adaptive-ban: Banned Host

2010-06-14 Thread Guy Neale
you could also use a little brute force and clear the whole syslog with "> /var/log/messages" Guy On 15/06/2010, at 12:06 AM, Dan Ryson wrote: > >> On Jun 13, 2010, at 7:27 PM, d...@ryson.org wrote: >> >> >>> Hello all. >>> >>> I have good news; bad news; and a question... >>> >>> Here's t

Re: [Astlinux-users] adaptive-ban: Banned Host

2010-06-14 Thread Dan Ryson
> On Jun 13, 2010, at 7:27 PM, d...@ryson.org wrote: > > >> Hello all. >> >> I have good news; bad news; and a question... >> >> Here's the good news: Adaptive Ban has proved very effective at killing >> break-in attempts from bad-guys. >> >> The bad news is: One of our off-site users tried

Re: [Astlinux-users] adaptive-ban: Banned Host

2010-06-13 Thread Guy Neale
ahhh of course, parses the whole syslog each time, didn't think of that, thanks On 14/06/2010, at 1:01 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck wrote: > Guy, > > Your solution will only work for a minute or two, until the syslog is > re-examined and re-adds the banned host. > > I suppose you could edit the /var/

Re: [Astlinux-users] adaptive-ban: Banned Host

2010-06-13 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
Guy, Your solution will only work for a minute or two, until the syslog is re-examined and re-adds the banned host. I suppose you could edit the /var/log/messages file and remove the unwanted logs containing the valid IP address, but that is a little hackish. Lonnie On Jun 13, 2010, at 9:49

Re: [Astlinux-users] adaptive-ban: Banned Host

2010-06-13 Thread Guy Neale
you could also do this to unban a banned IP ssh or login to your AstLinux type the following command to view banned IP's "iptables -L ADAPTIVE_BAN_CHAIN" Count the line number to the ip address you wish to unban (see example below), eg in my example I want to unban 124.8.0., which is on LIN

Re: [Astlinux-users] adaptive-ban: Banned Host

2010-06-13 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
On Jun 13, 2010, at 7:27 PM, d...@ryson.org wrote: > Hello all. > > I have good news; bad news; and a question... > > Here's the good news: Adaptive Ban has proved very effective at killing > break-in attempts from bad-guys. > > The bad news is: One of our off-site users tried to re-inst