On Wednesday 15 November 2006 21:00, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Peter Colton wrote: > > A handy tool I use to cut down on ssh brute force attacks is fail2ban : > > You can install it from backports.org. > > Add the backport url to your sources.list > > http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions > > Then after you have installed fail2ban comment out www.backports.org url > > in your apt sources.list so that you will not bring in any unwanted > > packages in the future. > > > > http://fail2ban.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/README > > http://www.ducea.com/2006/07/03/using-fail2ban-to-block-brute-force-attac > >ks/ http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/fail2ban.htm > > Thank you. That looks like a useful tool. I have already installed it on > one server to see how it goes. Is there some way of also automatically > reporting these ip's so that whoever is responsible for that server is > alerted to a worm or whatever might be causing this? > > > Shri > Hello Shri,
Off hand I would say no to "will it automatically reporting these ip's". The ip addresses it bans are log in fail2ban log file. Regards peter colton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]