On 10/23/2013 6:44 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:

> 
> I just did above.  IRC servers like to port scan you before you are
> allowed to complete a connection to make sure you are not an open proxy
> being used to do bad things on the IRC server.
> 
> These port scans fill up logs and hide the real activity that you really
> want to see in a log with all of this portscanning. 

One way to approach that is to use per-IP log rate limiting; I have:

   LOGLIMIT="s:5/min"

That way, a typical port scan generates no more than 5 log messages.

-Tom
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