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Date:      Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:37:48 -0800 (PST)
From:      Kris Anderson <ciscoaix@yahoo.com>
To:        Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to Stop Bruit Force ssh Attempts?
Message-ID:  <20060318223748.20675.qmail@web52703.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <441C45BA.1030106@chrismaness.com>

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--- Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com> wrote:

> In my auth log I see alot of bruit force attempts to
> login via ssh.  Is 
> there a way I can have the box automatically kill
> any tcp/ip 
> connectivity to hosts that try and fail a given
> number of times?  Is 
> there a port or something that I can install to give
> this kind of 
> protection.  I'm still kind of a FreeBSD newbie.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris Maness

Hey there,
A couple of things you could try. I believe there is a
port that watches log files, utilizing that you could
create a script to add the IP to your firewall rules
then after a time remove it.

The other way is to use snort_inline and see how that
works.

Hope that helps.


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