From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LQ261-0003mz-Be for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:07:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 513C4E02A8; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:07:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22122E02A8 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:07:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98A2B64605 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:06:59 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.33 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.33 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.269, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id L2cGqkrk8tW4 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:06:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A23864739 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:06:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LQ24s-00027C-MD for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:06:46 +0000 Received: from athedsl-303843.home.otenet.gr ([85.73.234.129]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:06:46 +0000 Received: from realnc by athedsl-303843.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:06:46 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts? Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:06:40 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <58965d8a0901201333j458b57e8hde9fe4c857e00e2c@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a0901201354n30001077v3771d17ec20b4b03@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a0901210635j2670c615ya760ae862125978b@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a0901211449x5da42120ib8a8087d97ebce70@mail.gmail.com> 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-303843.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090101) In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0901211449x5da42120ib8a8087d97ebce70@mail.gmail.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 76abb5f9-d292-4fcc-b42a-acbc4a1301d1 X-Archives-Hash: a92e09a51cbec1c177598df139c8e3a8 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> Can you check the logs to see the timespan in which those hundreds of >> attempts took place? Also, what's the time interval Denyhosts checks for >> login attempts? > > The most recently denied host from this afternoon made over 200 login > attempts in a span of 17 minutes before denyhosts caught it. In my > denyhosts.conf I have these: > > DENY_THRESHOLD_INVALID = 3 > DENY_THRESHOLD_VALID = 3 > DENY_THRESHOLD_ROOT = 1 > DENY_THRESHOLD_RESTRICTED = 1 What is the value of DAEMON_SLEEP?