Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:45:41 -0400 From: Damian Gerow <dgerow@afflictions.org> To: Adam Stroud <adam@thegeeklord.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bruteforce Message-ID: <20060412034541.GG41108@afflictions.org> In-Reply-To: <443C75BD.6030801@thegeeklord.com> References: <443B6FC8.8080503@egonflower.com> <20060411170437.GD66947@dimma.mow.oilspace.com> <1426257861.20060411192904@rulez.sk> <5ad23a300604111049i49d93cf7g1238512e7d372210@mail.gmail.com> <443BFB00.3090101@freebsdbrasil.com.br> <443C75BD.6030801@thegeeklord.com>
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Thus spake Adam Stroud (adam@thegeeklord.com) [11/04/06 23:49]: : I have been using pf (on an OpenBSD box) to automatically block : offending IP address using pf and it seems to work well for me. : Basically when an attackers tries to connect x number of times in y : minutes, I have the firewall set up to block the automatically. Ask yourselves: is this /really/ a good idea? (And at that, I won't continue this off-topic discussion.)
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