Hi,

Ah indeed, I misread the puppetlabs-denyhosts module. I had a look at the 
DenyHosts project but that seems limited to SSH alone. My fail2ban has 
rules that scan logs of our web servers, mail etc.

-- 
Daniele Sluijters

On Wednesday, 30 October 2013 01:39:56 UTC+1, Don Hoffman wrote:
>
> On reading your message, I think you are perhaps confusing the static 
> Linux /etc/host.deny mechanism with the DenyHosts project.  See 
> http://denyhosts.sourceforg.net 
>
>
> Don 
>
> On Oct 29, 2013, at 5:32 PM, Donald Hoffman <[email protected]<javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
>
> > On Oct 29, 2013, at 12:00 PM, Daniele Sluijters 
> > <[email protected]<javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > 
> >> Hi, 
> >> 
> >> DenyHosts is not an option for me since I can't predict which hosts 
> will be connecting from the outside. Fail2ban solves that issue by looking 
> for odd behaviour instead of asking me to whitelist. 
> >> 
> >> Thanks for the suggestion though, 
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> Daniele Sluijters 
> > 
> > Hmm.  Don’t quite follow.   DenyHost works pretty much the same as 
> fail2ban on the detection side.  I.e. “looking for odd behavior".  See this 
> entry from their FAQ:  http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/faq.html#1_5 
> > 
> > The DenyHost daemon monitors /var/log/secure for various signs of 
> unsuccessful attempts to connect (from anywhere).  Once a threshold is 
> reached a rule for that IP address is inserted in to /etc/host.deny.   
> Pretty much has the same detection features as Fail2ban. 
> > 
> > It is only on the filtering side where DenyHosts and Fail2ban really 
> differ.  Fail2ban sets up iptables firewall rules while DenyHosts adds 
> entries to hosts.deny for filtering in the app (usually sshd) server 
> daemon. 
> > 
> > Don 
> > 
> > 
>
>

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