Re: repeat offenders

2006-11-13 Thread tony
Matt Sergeant writes: David Kaufman wrote: Yup. Matt Sergeant wrote an article for O'Reilly Network last year and in it he develops exactly that, a "repeat offender" module that watches for repeatedly denied IP addresses and locally blacklists them, as an example of how to write your a plugi

Re: repeat offenders

2006-11-12 Thread Matt Sergeant
David Kaufman wrote: Yup. Matt Sergeant wrote an article for O'Reilly Network last year and in it he develops exactly that, a "repeat offender" module that watches for repeatedly denied IP addresses and locally blacklists them, as an example of how to write your a plugin: Anyone using that?

Re: repeat offenders

2006-11-12 Thread David Kaufman
"Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello there, I was wondering if anyone has a method of blocking repeat offenders? ie... perhaps a certain ip address has already violated the early talker rule, a dns rbl, or rhsbl rule. I'd like to be able to soft deny them for a c

Re: repeat offenders

2006-11-12 Thread tony
Chris writes: perhaps a certain ip address has already violated the early talker rule, a dns rbl, or rhsbl rule. I'd like to be able to soft deny them for a configurable amount of time. It might also be interesting to hold them down for a longer period of time if they continue to connect re

repeat offenders

2006-11-12 Thread Chris
Hello there, I was wondering if anyone has a method of blocking repeat offenders? ie... perhaps a certain ip address has already violated the early talker rule, a dns rbl, or rhsbl rule. I'd like to be able to soft deny them for a configurable amount of time. It might also be intere