>Tom Rivers wrote: > Craig White wrote: > not responsive to your question but highly recommended... > denyhosts package (yum install denyhosts) > I have had a lot of luck with fail2ban myself. You might want to take a look > http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page > You can install it with yum too. ;) ># yum install fail2ban denyhosts Yet another similar package (can use iptables also to block, and block ftp, pop3, etc services also): http://www.aczoom.com/cms/blockhosts But - I don't believe a yum install exists, so use rpm instead: rpm -Uv BlockHosts-2.0.6-1.noarch.rpm