Denyhost

[Derek Ragona]

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,
>
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