[ale] What's the utility to shut out hackers/viri attempting sshd attacks?

[J. D. Pearson]

H. A. Story wrote:

>That looks like great software but I wonder what happens if you are 
>behind a firewall and you are not using iptables routes.   Kind of a 
>long standing question in the back of my mind.
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Denyhosts will work in that type of situation. It watches the secure log 
and blacklists offending IPs. It is not bulletproof but it can be handy.

http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/

Best regards,

J. D.