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Cc: Jordi Espasa Clofent <jordi.espasa@opengea.org>
Subject: Re: denyhosts-like app for MySQLd?
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On Monday 21 January 2008 12:35:51 pm Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > There is a functionality in pf, that allows you to have an application to
> > update a list of hosts, that is used in a rule. You could have a script
> > harvest the addresses from your log files, and then update the table in
> > pf. I have not tried it myself, but was looking at adopting an
> > implementation to create a tarpit for spammers based on this idea.
>
> Yes Tim, I know it. The "problem" is the servers are builded in IPFW as
> firewall solution.
> I've tried the "limit" IPFW's option... but isn't exactly what I'm
> looking for.

As far as I know you can run both. You can just have minimal rules in pf to 
deal with this, and pass everything else, and deal with the rest in ipfw.