Date:  Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:45:58 +0100
From:  Dogsbody <dan (at mark) dogsbody.org>
Subject:  [coba-e:14125] Re: Dovecot Attack
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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> Let me also provide a little but more information.  I added the IP also to
> the hosts.deny file.  That didn't change anything.

Are you using the correct syntax in hosts.deny?  A line should look like...
ALL: 65.69.251.9

> I tried to do a iptables restart but it basically hung up the system.

Sounds like you have the latest iptables/kernel bug, Read coba-e:14086 
in the mail archives for a fix to this.

Dan