Temporarily blocked...not

Hi,

we get occasional brute force login atttempts. The following log clip shows a couple. The second login attempt would suggest the previous attempt doesn't actually block the host from retrying even though the log entry suggests so. Do I misunderstand something?

20:43:21.328 1 POP-006892([173.68.176.196]:4079) failed to open ACCOUNT(cs) for [173.68.176.196]:4079->[83.150.109.27]:110. Error Code=unknown user account
20:43:21.329 1 POP-006892([173.68.176.196]:4079) [173.68.176.196] temporarily blocked on login failure
20:43:21.343 1 ROUTER SYSTEM: 'angela' rejected. Error Code=unknown user account
20:43:21.343 1 POP-006893([173.68.176.196]:3535) failed to open ACCOUNT(angela) for [173.68.176.196]:3535->[83.150.109.28]:110. Error Code=unknown user account
20:43:21.344 1 POP-006893([173.68.176.196]:3535) [173.68.176.196] temporarily blocked on login failure
20:43:21.596 1 ROUTER SYSTEM: 'company' rejected. Error Code=unknown user account



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