[Gllug] Dynamic firewall rules

[Tethys]

Jon Dye writes:

>Does anyone know of a program that can moitor logs and add rules to my 
>firewall based on what it finds?  I think such a program exists and I 
>don't want to create my own if there is already one out there but I 
>havn't been able to find one.
>
>My main reason for this is to block specific IPs after login attempts to 
>unknown users.

There are several, but you really don't want to do this. Otherwise, you're
placing control of your firewall rules in the hands of the bad guys, and
it's way too easy to spoof bad login attempts from, say, your upstream
provider...

Tet
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