Denyhosts

Discussion in 'HOWTO-Related Questions' started by bernholdt, Jan 14, 2009.

  1. bernholdt

    bernholdt Member

    How can i prevent my owb ip to be added to hosts.deny ?
    I tried o make a file called allowed-hosts and type my ip in but i keep getting added because i was stupid enough to mistype the first time i tried to connect to my server :(
     
  2. falko

    falko Super Moderator Howtoforge Staff

    What's the outputs of
    Code:
    updatedb
    locate denyhosts
    ? There's some kind of database from which you must remove the IP.
     
  3. bernholdt

    bernholdt Member

    Tnx for your replies
    After bieng locked out of my own server twice the same week by denyhosts i decided to find an alternative.
     
  4. falko

    falko Super Moderator Howtoforge Staff

    Try fail2ban or Blockhosts.
     
  5. bernholdt

    bernholdt Member

    I installed fail2ban works perfectly
     

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