Preventing Brute Force Attacks With Fail2ban

Preventing Brute Force Attacks With Fail2ban

Fail2ban is a tool monitoring connexion failures, and blocking for a time IP addresses that triggered a number of successive failures.

This behaviour allow to prevent most of deny of service attacks and password stealing by brute-force attacks.

Interesting info about it can be found at:
http://www.howtoforge.com/fail2ban_debian_etch
http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/HOWTO_fail2ban_spanish