[TriLUG] scan question

[Owen Berry]

On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 01:01 -0500, John Broome wrote:
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> WA Brown wrote:
> > Is there anyway That I can stop someone scanning? They hit my server all
> > the time for 100's of times a day. Is there anyway I can ban them for a
> > certain amount of time when they put in bad logins? Ive seen that on
> > someboards,You will be banned for 30 minutes if you put in a wrong login
> > 5 times. Can I do this?
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> > WA Brown
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> Look for denyhosts, that's what you want.

Which is here:

http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/