[TriLUG] denying login attempts to a vsftp server

[Douglas Ward]

I use this on all of my Mandriva/CentOS servers.

http://www.aczoom.com/cms/blockhosts

On Nov 26, 2007 4:45 PM, Blackburn, Marvin <mblackburn at glenraven.com> wrote:

> I have a vsftp server running on rhel 4.  On occasion, I get "swamped"
> with
> connection attempts -- sometimes over 40,000.  Usually the culprits have
> one
> or two ip addresses.
> I had seen on either this list or the redhat lists, a discussion of a
> package that would automatically bounce requests from a specific ip after
> "x" number of failures.  I cant seem to find the
> references.
>
> I really can use wrappers effectively as the culprit's ip addresses change
> a
> lot.  Any help would be appreciated.
>
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