[aklug] Iptables: Automatic Blacklisting

As a naive iptables user, I was wondering what you guys thought of this:

http://thiemonagel.de/2006/02/preventing-brute-force-attacks-using-iptables-recent-matching/

I've been getting a lot of attacks lately of the kind described in the article: the attacker will try SSH'ing into 40 or 50 different common user names, and then a few seconds later he will try again from another host.

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Christopher Howard
frigidcode.com
theologia.indicium.us
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