Ebuild: blockhosts

Kevin Funk

• 1 min read

Full package name: app-admin/blockhosts

Ok, this isn't really new; I decided to extract the ebuild from the HowTo.
So here is the blockhosts ebuild.

Some information about the package:

Blockhosts is a python script which records how many times a system service has been probed, using configurable pattern matching to recognize failed accesses (such as for "sshd" or "proftpd" or any service), and when a particular IP address exceeds a certain number of failed attempts that IP address is blocked by using one of the following techniques, e.g.:

  • using TCP_WRAPPERS (writes to /etc/hosts.allow)
  • using "ip route" commands to setup null-routing for attackers
  • using IPtables to setup packet filtering for attackers

See also

Frequently updated ebuild
This package is in the sunrise overlay. Please check out this link if you want up2date ebuilds.
http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/sunrise/reviewed/app-admin/blockhosts/

  • 2007-06-05, +blockhosts-2.0.3.ebuild
  • 2007-06-09, +blockhosts-2.0.4.ebuild
  • 2007-08-01, +blockhosts-2.0.5.ebuild
  • 2007-09-21, +blockhosts-2.0.6.ebuild, prune
  • 2007-10-01, +blockhosts-2.1.0.ebuild