Re: Automatic Firewall software?

2004-10-15 Thread Richard Verwayen
On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 04:09, Vulpes Velox wrote: Doesn't Portsentry ignore ports that have a service bound to them like the SSH daemon? In that case, it wouldn't help Brian's problem, since ssh is running, portsentry would ignore any attacks to port 22, right? Move it and the like to a

Re: Automatic Firewall software?

2004-10-14 Thread Peter Pauly
Doesn't Portsentry ignore ports that have a service bound to them like the SSH daemon? In that case, it wouldn't help Brian's problem, since ssh is running, portsentry would ignore any attacks to port 22, right? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Automatic Firewall software?

2004-10-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
Frankly I hadn't thought of that. You can configure portsentry to monitor any port *and* to ignore certain hosts, so I would think it could monitor port 22 although I haven't tested it personally. --On Thursday, October 14, 2004 02:07:24 PM -0500 Peter Pauly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesn't

Re: Automatic Firewall software?

2004-10-14 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:07:24 -0500 Peter Pauly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesn't Portsentry ignore ports that have a service bound to them like the SSH daemon? In that case, it wouldn't help Brian's problem, since ssh is running, portsentry would ignore any attacks to port 22, right? Move it

Automatic Firewall software?

2004-10-13 Thread Brian J. McGovern
All, This morning, I woke up to find one of my systems under hacker attack (considerable multiple attempts to log in to ftp, ssh, etc., mostly using system accounts). I loaded ipfw and set up a couple of quick rules to block the point of origin. Unfortunately, the address appears to be

Re: Automatic Firewall software?

2004-10-13 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, October 13, 2004 10:04:24 AM -0400 Brian J. McGovern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rather than having to hang over my machine is there any software out there that will monitor logs (e.g. /var/log/messages), parse out failed logins like this, and run an ipfw command to block it?