Just FYI that there is a similar in purpose tool in Debian already. So if you are eager to get such a service asap before denyhosts gets into debian please consider fail2ban: Package: fail2ban Priority: optional Section: net Installed-Size: 240 Maintainer: Yaroslav Halchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 0.5.4-9 Depends: python, iptables Filename: pool/main/f/fail2ban/fail2ban_0.5.4-9_all.deb Size: 32334 MD5sum: 289a8a3e9b42f505bab9403ace7fc16c Description: bans IPs that cause multiple authentication errors Monitors (in daemon mode) or just scans log files (e.g. /var/log/auth.log, /var/log/apache/access.log) and temporarily bans failure-prone addresses by updating existing firewall rules. Currently, by default, supports ssh/apache but configuration can be easily extended for scanning the other ASCII log files. Firewall rules are given in the config file, thus it can be adopted to be used with a variety of firewalls (e.g. iptables, ipfwadm). . Homepage: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/fail2ban
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