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

[David Rees]

On 8/30/06, Eric Rostetter <rostetter at mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Try fail2ban (fail2ban.sourceforge.net I think).

That looks like it will work, thanks, I'll give it a shot.

-Dave