Re: [tlug] defending a personal server from attacks

[Lars Kotthoff <lists@example.com>]

> What would be the recommended way to protect from this? manually modify the
> firewall (iptables) to block the attacker IP address(es)?

Fail2ban (http://www.fail2ban.org/) probably does everything you want pretty
much out of the box. Haven't used it myself though -- I'm using OpenBSD on my
router/server and things like this are part of the firewall config.

Lars