On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 09:23:47AM +0200, M. Feenstra wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I'm getting a bit tired of all those web vulnerability scanners. I 
> generate a list of 404 requests to find errors in my websites but this 
> list is mainly filled with these scanners. 
>
> I have added a table to "pf" that blocks some of the more persistent  
> attackers but I like to update this table automatically. I was thinking 
> of writing a little script/module for my webserver that after three 404's 
> in a row adds them to the table. 
>
> Of course my webserver doesn't run as so I can not run pfctl to update 
> the table. Preferably I also don't want to write to a file and schedule a 
> pfctl every minute. 
>
> Ideally it would be a daemon that listens to localhost only and, after  
> authentication, accepts an IP address from the webserver which is than 
> put in the table. 
>
> Does something like this exist? Or maybe, is there a better way of 
> dealing with this? 
>

man nc(1) || man inetd(8)

> Regard,
> Mark

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