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Date:      Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:57:22 +0100
From:      Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
To:        Jordi Espasa Clofent <jordi.espasa@opengea.org>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [fbsd] denyhosts-like app for MySQLd?
Message-ID:  <20080121205722.GA62295@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
In-Reply-To: <47946AD3.2020601@opengea.org>
References:  <47946AD3.2020601@opengea.org>

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Hi,

On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 10:50:11AM +0100, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:
>  We have a mysql ports (3306) opened for remote connections, and obviously 
>  the /var/db/mysql/machine_name.log is full of these kind of entries:
> 
>  ...........
>  936012 Connect     Access denied for user 'user'@'85.19.95.10' (using 
>  password: YES)
>  936013 Connect     Access denied for user 'user'@'85.19.95.10' (using 
>  password: YES)
>  936014 Connect     Access denied for user 'user'@'85.19.95.10' (using 
>  password: YES)
>  936016 Connect     Access denied for user 'user'@'85.19.95.10' (using 
>  password: YES)
>  936018 Connect     Access denied for user 'user'@'85.19.95.10' (using 
>  password: YES)
>  936019 Connect     Access denied for user 'user'@'85.19.95.10' (using 
>  password: YES)
>  .............
> 
>  The idea is blocking the abusive IPs in automated way.
> 
>  [1] http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/

You may have a look at Fail2Ban:
http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Features

-- 
Jeremie Le Hen
< jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >



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