Attack from a reserved address

[john.abreau at zuken.com (John Abreau)]

Dave Berry wrote:
> On 8/31/06, dsr at tao.merseine.nu <dsr at tao.merseine.nu> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 12:41:24PM -0400, Larry Underhill wrote:
>> > slightly OT: what are the general practices folks that folks take to
>> > secure the "public" services on their home boxen? I have ssh and http
>> > available.
>> >
> Install denyhosts is good too.  It will block an IP after a specified
> number of ssh llogin attempts.
> 
> -dave
> 

I'll have to give that a try. BTW, does it also support blocking ftp
attacks? I've got an ftp server for our customers that I need to
support, and somebody keeps slamming the ftp port for hours at a
time, with attempts spaced about 3 seconds apart.


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