linux.gentoo.user

On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Steve wrote:

> I migrated to try using iptables as my firewall and using
> blacklist.py - which I got working after some minor config-tweaking.
> I'm aware that there is configuration in the blacklist.py script for
> BLOCKING_PERIOD - but what I really miss the "blocked forever" nature
> of the DenyHosts alternative.... though I prefer every other aspect
> of the
> iptables/blacklist.py approach.

blacklist.py seems to work well for you, so why not just set
BLOCKING_PERIOD to it's maximum value?

I would imagine that even after say one week the vast majority of zombie
bots would have given up and moved on



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Alan McKinnon
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