On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Steve wrote: > I migrated to try using iptables as my firewall and using > blacklist.py - which I got working after some minor config-tweaking. > I'm aware that there is configuration in the blacklist.py script for > BLOCKING_PERIOD - but what I really miss the "blocked forever" nature > of the DenyHosts alternative.... though I prefer every other aspect > of the > iptables/blacklist.py approach.
blacklist.py seems to work well for you, so why not just set BLOCKING_PERIOD to it's maximum value? I would imagine that even after say one week the vast majority of zombie bots would have given up and moved on -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
