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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Fail2Ban vs Blockhosts vs DenyHosts vs iptable throttle for SSH</H1>
    <B>finid at linuxbsdos.com</B> 
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    <I>Tue Feb 19 12:20:08 CET 2013</I>
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<PRE>If that's how you feel about having a program like DenyHosts running by 
default, do you feel the same way about having a firewall running and 
configured out of the box.

Is a firewall a sysadmin's or packager's choice?


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On 2013-02-19 11:03, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
&gt;<i> Le 19/02/2013 11:06, <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">finid at linuxbsdos.com</A> a &#233;crit :
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Sounds like a good idea to have something in place out of the box.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> PC-BSD, which has SSH server running by default also has DenyHosts
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> configured and running by default.
</I>&gt;<i> That's a asysadmin choice, not a packager one. Bloating every
</I>&gt;<i> machines just because it may be useful in some cases doesn't seems a
</I>&gt;<i> good idea.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> And the best defense against ssh scan bot is to forbid password-based
</I>&gt;<i> authentications, BTW.
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