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Date:      Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:11:32 -0500
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?
Message-ID:  <17752.28420.419823.493141@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061113060528.GA7646@best.com>
References:  <20061113060528.GA7646@best.com>

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Leo L. Schwab writes:

>  	A little Googling revealed a couple of potentially useful
>  tools: 'sshit' and 'bruteblock', both of which notice repeated
>  login attempts from a given IP address and blackhole it in the
>  firewall.

	There's also "denyhosts".  I found the configuration annoying
(need to correctly modify too many files) but once it's running it
works for me.



				Robert Huff



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