I currently run FreeBSD 6.x, and everything is running smoothly. Is there any reason for me to upgrade to 7 or 8 when it comes out? Am I missing any hot new feature, that I would just have to have?
I am using denyhosts on my FreeBSD (6.2) box, and everything appears to be working fine, except denyhosts keeps adding the same 4 hosts to my denied file over and over.
eli18.internetdsl.tpnet.pl
mx-int.rundblick.de
vmnepo05.deri.ie
v29051.1blu.de
Has anyone else seen this, or better yet know how to fix it? I googled for this, and didn't find any answers. One person had a similar problem, but no solution.
Edit:
Just to clarify I currently have denyhosts configured to write all denied hosts to /etc/hosts.deniedssh, and my /etc/hosts.allow uses that file in a rule to deny access to all hosts in that file. Denyhosts for whatever reason keeps adding the same four hosts to hosts.deniedssh
Edit 2: Here are the relevant portions of my denyhosts.conf file
# Mandrake, FreeBSD or OpenBSD:
SECURE_LOG = /var/log/auth.log
# Most operating systems:
HOSTS_DENY = /etc/hosts.deniedssh
#######################################################################
#
# WORK_DIR: the path that DenyHosts will use for writing data to
# (it will be created if it does not already exist).
#
# Note: it is recommended that you use an absolute pathname
# for this value (eg. /home/foo/denyhosts/data)
#
WORK_DIR = /usr/local/share/denyhosts/data
Additionally the four hosts in question are no where to be found in my /var/log/auth.log file (at least not the most current one).
I have installed Apache 2 from source on my Linux box. apachectl -k start works just fine, but how do I get Apache to start at boot time?
This is on a Red Hat Linux distribution:
Linux <hostname> 2.6.9-55.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Apr 20 17:03:35 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
What tool or technique do you use to prevent brute force attacks against your ssh port. I noticed in my Security logs, that I have millions of attempts to login as various users through ssh.
This is on a FreeBSD box, but I imagine it would be applicable anywhere.