Andika Triwidada wrote at 2012-08-14 06:50 -0500: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Michelle Konzack > <linux4michelle@tamay-dogan.net> wrote: > > > > Hello Colleges and *, > > > > since Sunday 19:47 CEST 18 of my servers are under heavy attack. > > > > Currently I have counted over 18 million login attempts (dictionary > > attack) with a list of 1005 names an started with IP <50.56.180.220>. > > Any reason not to use fail2ban or any similar tool to prevent those > brute force attacks? I think fail2ban does not yet support ipv6; the iptables recent module might do an adequate job without requiring extra software (limit number of new connection attempts from a specific IP per n seconds).
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