Re: SSH hank attempts��bad?

[Jonathan Duncan]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Steve wrote:

> Too bad there isn't a global blacklist a person could subscribe to,
> that way if you notice that you need to add someone to your block
> list, you could notify some service and they would add it to the
> global blacklist.  Then anyone subscribing to the blacklist could get
> an update and block that IP until the admin of that IP fixes the
> problem, and reports this fact back to the blacklist.
>

Here is a script I use to automatically block hackers.  It was made for 
FreeBSD but I am sure it can give you some ideas and perhaps be adapted.

http://www.teamits.com/resources/maxlogins.txt

Jonathan