[TriLUG] brainfart question
James Olin Oden
james.oden at gmail.com
Wed Nov 28 13:45:53 EST 2007
On 11/28/07, WA Brown <brownwa at ftc-i.net> wrote:
> I have a server and website. I am having a problem with robots trying to
> access the message board. Looks like captcha dont work. I get 50 tries a
> day. It fills up my email and I have to delete all the entries.
> What can I do to stop this?
>
Is it coming from the same source host or network?
If it is, you should be able to use tcp wrappers ( /etc/hosts.deny
/etc/hosts.allow) to block this host or network. Furthermore, there
is probably an abuse address you can contact on the network from which
the attack is coming.
Cheers...james
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