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From: Pascal Hambourg <pascal.mail@plouf.fr.eu.org>
To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: can we design a modified fail2ban ?
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:29:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BC88267.5010005@plouf.fr.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BC7E028.8050209@infoservices.in>

Hello,

J. Bakshi a écrit :
> 
> fail2ban is a popular application to prevent the brute-force attack
> against ssh and also against imap, pop3 etc.. But fail2ban actually
> blacklist the IP and this is what fail2ban has been designed for. Now a
> days we can design the same with iptables. I wonder if iptables can
> provide more liberty to match IP as well as port combination so that we
> don't need to blacklist the IP but only block the attempts from the IP
> based on port. Say more than 3 ssh attempt from IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is
> detected and no more ssh attempt from the same ip is no more possible
> but pop and imap still works. Is it really possible with iptables ?

Detected how ? fail2ban detects authentication failures by parsing the
server logs. iptables cannot do this, and IHMO should not do this. This
is just not its purpose.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-16 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-16  3:57 can we design a modified fail2ban ? J. Bakshi
2010-04-16  7:28 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-04-17 16:01   ` Alessandro Vesely
2010-04-17 17:58     ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-04-18 13:46       ` Alessandro Vesely
2010-04-18 16:44         ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-04-19 15:18           ` Alessandro Vesely
2010-04-19  3:16     ` J. Bakshi
2010-04-16 15:29 ` Pascal Hambourg [this message]

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