Date:  Wed, 27 Dec 2006 04:30:26 +0100
From:  Michael Stauber <bq (at mark) solarspeed.net>
Subject:  [coba-e:08349] Re: Preventing dictionary attacks
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Message-Id:  <200612270430.26877.bq (at mark) solarspeed.net>
In-Reply-To:  <4591D6F6.7020408 (at mark) dogsbody.org>
References:  <4591D6F6.7020408 (at mark) dogsbody.org>
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> iptables RECENT module would be good but does it work on the default CentOS
> BQ (v1.2.11)?  I also don't think it would work very well on POP3, IMAP &
> Apache??

Yes, it works fine on BQ. I'm using IPTables "recent" module as part of my 
Security Package for BQ. There it by default guard SSH and FTP. Extending it 
for POP3/IMAP and other services is rather trivial, but as I haven't seen 
attacks against POP3 or IMAP so far I didn't want to include it for these 
services yet.

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With best regards,

Michael Stauber