From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OPBvg-0000ua-Ut for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:02:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C23DCE0AFB; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:02:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4553BE0AC5 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:02:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 17 Jun 2010 10:02:03 -0000 Received: from wnavab.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (EHLO minerva.invalid) [131.159.10.67] by mail.gmx.net (mp031) with SMTP; 17 Jun 2010 12:02:03 +0200 X-Authenticated: #2673340 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX181HZpddoM1eXnse/fyuGdomIZcRs0zHJdZXzi3A8 THQ92A0Ea8HNOQ Posted-and-Mailed: no Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: User & password scanning on pop3 From: Tobias R References: <4C196BAB.7080308@Rods.id.au> User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25 To: Rod X-No-Archive: yes Message-ID: <19b2c108230b122d3bac9d8604fd0ae7@minerva.invalid> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:02:03 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: 6740d1b6-20a1-4bbe-966f-bc45ac08d9be X-Archives-Hash: 788ea7950ed2f63a120a2567a913ccd2 > Hi, > Does anyone know how to block, or auto programs in Gentoo to > limit > or stop people scanning for a user/password hacking on your > firewall? You may want to have a look at iptables and hashlimit, e.g. [1] (please note that I never tried this by myself). 1. http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2006/Feb/702 Tobias