[Mageia-dev] Fail2Ban vs Blockhosts vs DenyHosts vs iptable throttle for SSH

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and finid at linuxbsdos.com at 19/02/13 12:44 did gyre and
gimble:
> On 2013-02-19 12:13, Colin Guthrie wrote:
>> So overall I'd welcome a default setup that allows things to be more
>> secure/robust by default (obviously balanced against user experience -
>> e.g. a *very* secure setup would be to ban all traffic in or out... but
>> that's not a nice user experience :D).
>>
> 
> If you are referring to a firewall, banning "all traffic in or out" does
> not make sense. 

Yes... that's why I used it as an example of something that didn't make
sense ;)

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