Re: targetted SSH bruteforce attacks

[wahjava.ml () gmail com (Ashish SHUKLA)]

Gary Baribault writes:

[...]

>     Both of these systems are within one /21 and get attacked
> regularly. I run Denyhosts on them, and update the central server once
> an hour with attacking IPs, and obviously also download the public
> hosts.deny list.

How about combining denyhosts with netfilter through its plugin mechanism ? In
addition to adding entry to hosts.deny file, you can also play with netfilter
and 'recent' extension.

Ashish
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