[Dovecot] Delay on failed pw attempts

Gabriel Millerd gmillerd at gmail.com
Wed Jan 2 13:07:29 EET 2008


On Jan 2, 2008 2:33 AM, Benjamin R. Haskell <dovecot at benizi.com> wrote:
>
> Does fail2ban allow you to tarpit, rather than outright-ban, IP's? I've
> always thought tarpitting the better option of the two. Seems sneakier
> (Fight back without the attacker necessarily knowing you're fighting).
>

Actually I was wrong, if you have netfilter tarpit support compiled in
you could do this, though though that aspect isn't fail2ban specific.

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Gabriel Millerd


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