Hi! Am Samstag, den 17.02.2007, 08:25 -0700 schrieb Ashley M. Kirchner: > Is there a way to configure iptables to automatically block a > specific IP after a certain repeated count (in a specific period)? Or, > is there a way to tell vsftpd to deny connections after a certain number > of failed logins? Something like a MaxLoginAttempts or some such? fail2ban might be what you want: http://www.fail2ban.org http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Category:FTP And also take a look at psad: http://www.cipherdyne.org/projects/psad/index.html Best regards! Christian