Such complicated and long rulesets bring administration and performance concerns.

This means that every checked address or network would need their own rule in the ruleset. Matching lists of addresses or networks by using just iptables is indeed messy because iptables as itself does not support matching multiple separate addresses or networks in one rule. This article describes deploying IPv4 address bans based on how often a remote client tries to connect to a specific port, using netfilter‘s iptables and ipset tools. The setup might be most useful in the context of security-sensitive hosts where additional security measures would be justified, even more so if, for some reason, strong (e.g. What makes the described solution effortless is that there is no need to install and configure a separate log watcher daemon – just bring in some firewall rules. Most administrators know the feeling of annoyance when they look at the system security logs and notice the enormous amounts of failed SSH logins. This is especially the case with SSH brute force attacks.

In this article are shown example instructions for a simple firewall disallowing new connections if the remote host initiates a connection too often.

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