Need help!

[Jack]

--- Frank Wiles wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 21:52:02 -0700 (PDT)
> Jack <quiet_celt at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > ... I'm looking
> for
> > solution to reduce the attacks. The box is a "busy
> > box", that is running several services. It runs
> the
> > ...
> 
>   The best way to lock out these attackers is to
> simply use
>   iptables to block their IPs from accessing your
> system.  It
>   doesn't prevent a DoS on your available bandwidth,
> but it keeps
>   them from bugging your system. I'm not sure why
> this hasn't
>   been suggested before.  
I have about half of the addresses blocked, but what
is 
the impact of adding 150 ip addresses to iptables with
potentially hundreds more over time? At what point
will iptables eat up all my bandwidth in blocking
addresses?

Thanks everyone for the suggestions.

Brian D.

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