On Saturday 22 November 2008 08:43:14 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Saturday, 2008-11-22 at 00:52 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
What is that automated Block??? package that updates your hosts.deny file if you have x attempts in y minutes from an IP?
You can use the automated block mechanism included in susefirewall. Simply activate it.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
Carlos, can you give chapter & verse on where to find the automated block mechanism, please? It's early morning and I'm not feeling very clever :( I've also been getting the attacks that David describes, mostly from addresses in China, but once from Brazil. But maybe they've been spoofed? Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.0, Kernel 2.6.25.18-0.2-default, KDE 4.1.3 Intel Celeron 2.53GHz, 2GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 7600GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org