under some kind of attack

mj lists at merit.unu.edu
Wed Jul 19 13:38:44 EEST 2017


Hi Joseph,

On 07/18/2017 11:10 PM, Joseph Tam wrote:
>> However, it seems almost all IPs are different, and I don't think I can
>> keep the above settings permanently.
> 
> Why not?  Limited by firewall rules overload?  You could probably use
> a persistent DB, can't you?
I meant: keep the "block after the first failed attempt" setting. People 
need the chance to change their password, so I have increased it to two.

> You can also use a third party RBL that specialized in brute forcers like
> blocklist.de.  You can also feed back fail2ban data and crowdsource BFD
> data to them.
Yes, I will look into that now.

Thanks!


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