On Jun 20, 2010, at 6:43 PM, kashani wrote:
> On 6/16/2010 5:26 PM, Rod wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Does anyone know how to block, or auto programs in Gentoo to limit or >> stop people scanning for a user/password hacking on your firewall? >> >> Besides disabling those ports, I still need the port accessable from the >> outside, and I guess they'd just try imap if pop was blocked. >> >> I'm running iptables, postfix & courier > > Have you considered changing over to pop3-ssl and imap-ssl? I fully > switched over about six years ago and nearly every job I've had since has > used SSL as well. I'd still recommend plain imap to be open on localhost for > webmail to interact with it, but you should have far less problems. And less > change of sniffers pulling user/pass from wireless connections in cafes. > > kashani > > > -- > Powered by Flux Labs > http://www.fluxlabs.net > Try fail2ban
