Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:16:24 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Denyhost Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20080606111601.0254f4f8@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <20080606035604.GA80471@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: <48485C59.3060504@netfence.it> <6.0.0.22.2.20080605181810.025867c8@mail.computinginnovations.com> <20080606035604.GA80471@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk>
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At 10:56 PM 6/5/2008, Frank Shute wrote: >On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 06:19:26PM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: > > > > At 04:36 PM 6/5/2008, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > > > > > >Anyone using this? > > >I've used it for a long time on a 6.x box and it worked fine. > > >Recently I had to deactivate it since it seems to lock away every IP > which > > >is listed in the logs. > > >Any hint? > > > > > > bye & Thanks > > > av. > > > > I believe denyhost has been deprecated. I use /etc/hosts.allow which > works > > fine and combines both allow and deny functions in one configuration file. > > > > -Derek > > > >Derek, I think Andrea meant the port security/denyhosts which monitors >your ssh port and adds dodgy IPs which attack 22 to hosts.allow (I >think - I haven't used it yet). Are you thinking of hosts.deny? Yes I was, sorry for my mistake. -Derek >I guess you can configure it as to how it blocks the IPs. > >Andrea, have a look at hosts.allow to see how it's blocking those IPs >and you should be able to remove them or relax the rules. You have to >give inetd a HUP to reread hosts.allow. > >HTH. > >Regards, > >-- > > Frank > > > Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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