"FEEB" <feeb@chem.utoronto.ca> wrote in
news:srropurzhgbebagbpn.i3ohdhe.pminews@news1.chem .utoronto.ca:

>>> I would like to have the following scenario implemented on my network:
>>>
>>> 1.
>>> Someone tries repeatedly and illegally to log in as 'admin', 'root' or
>>> whatever from some IP using SSH (or any other means).
>>
>>Why not just set hosts.deny to ALL: ALL and then open up only those IPs
> or
>>domains you wish to allow in hosts.allow?
>
> We must be open to anyone. That's our business :-)

Ah. Then just put the bad IP or IP range into the hosts.deny. Of course
this won't scale well for many IP addresses.

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