Steven J Lamb wrote:
I am trying to create a script to block people using hosts.deny. I
realize that I should just block everyone and then open access for
those whom I know I trust but because of the nature of our network
this is not possible. basically I check log files for login attempts
every five minutes and block those that attempt to log in more than 3
times that day. this is all working great but my problem is this. I
sometimes get log entries with the symbolic address instead of the ip.
how do I convert these in a systematic way and not have a problem when
I run IPs through it. I'm sure this is an easy task but I don't now
what tool to use.
thanks for your help
Steven Lamb
FC4
look at http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/
it works very well for me
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