Re: ot: how to block persistent same invalid account, different IPs

On 22/12/17 11:41, Voytek Eymont wrote:

I've installed fail2ban, it seems to be working as it identified my failed test logins, BUT, my question is:

what can I do when I see same invalid name trying to login to dovecot, different IP each time, how can I say block each IP as used by this name ? or it that a bad idea ?

I can see two persistent attempts as so:

I don't have such user 'ignacio' or 'julian'

# grep ignacio.munoz /var/log/dovecot.log | wc 178 3436 35624 # grep ignacio.munoz /var/log/dovecot.log | grep 'auth fail' | wc 178 3436 35624

# grep julian /var/log/dovecot.log | wc 178 3432 34321 # grep julian /var/log/dovecot.log | grep 'auth fail' | wc 178 3432 34321

last 6 tries, sometimes have just : , sometimes, with tld

Dec 22 17:00:33 imap-login: Info: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts in 8 secs): user=ignacio.munoz@aaa.com, method=PLAIN, rip=157.122.183.218, lip=163.47.110.6, TLS, session=<Z4JniOdgkgCderfa> Dec 22 17:01:06 imap-login: Info: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts in 7 secs): user=, method=PLAIN, rip=60.172.162.2, lip=163.47.110.6, TLS, session=<CsdriudgWAA8rKIC> Dec 22 18:58:26 imap-login: Info: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts in 10 secs): user=ignacio.munoz@aaa.com, method=PLAIN, rip=60.30.224.189, lip=163.47.110.6, TLS: Disconnected, session=<kvLWLelg0QA8HuC9> Dec 22 18:58:59 imap-login: Info: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts in 7 secs): user=, method=PLAIN, rip=220.164.2.138, lip=163.47.110.6, TLS: Disconnected, session= Dec 22 19:30:28 imap-login: Info: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts in 6 secs): user=ignacio.munoz@aaa.com, method=PLAIN, rip=113.8.194.3, lip=163.47.110.6, TLS, session=<jfSgoOlgswBxCMID> Dec 22 19:31:09 imap-login: Info: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts in 6 secs): user=, method=PLAIN, rip=58.210.119.226, lip=163.47.110.6, TLS, session=

fail2ban isn't really the right tool to fight massive DDOS attacks.  On the other hand, you don't seem to have that problem, so things work out maybe.

It's cleaner to know the future and ban the right things at the right times, but is there real harm from people trying bad logins from different IP's and you just wait for fail2ban to block each one?  Your log snippet covers 151 minutes, even fail2ban would normally have unjailed ip's after that much time.

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