block host with brute-force attach

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009, vu pham wrote:
> I remember someone mentioned/asked/answered this already but I just  
> could not remember it.
>
> My system gets a lot of password-guess attackes. What is the tool that  
> disables those remote attack hosts ?
>

fail2ban comes to mind.

Bill
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