[Dovecot] No tcp wrappers, other ideas to help stop brute force attacks?

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting David Rees <drees76 at gmail.com>:

> On 8/30/06, Mike <mikee at mikee.ath.cx> wrote:
>>> Otherwise I need to figure out a way to have denyhosts trigger
>>> iptables rules or something, or maybe there's another application that
>>> will work?
>>
>> What about iptables instead of tcp_wrappers or /etc/hosts.deny?
>
> Yeah, that's my best guess right now, I need to figure out how to make
> denyhosts trigger iptables rules or find another tool which can... but
> I haven't found anything yet.
>
> -Dave

Try fail2ban (fail2ban.sourceforge.net I think).

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Eric Rostetter
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