Re: Massiv dictionary attacks from <rackspace.com>

Andika Triwidada <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:50:26 +0700

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On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Michelle Konzack
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello Colleges and *,
>
> since Sunday 19:47 CEST 18 of my servers are under heavy attack.
>
> Currently I have counted over  18  million  login  attempts  (dictionary
> attack) with a list of 1005 names an started with IP <50.56.180.220>.

Any reason not to use fail2ban or any similar tool to prevent those
brute force attacks?

--
andika