Re: [SLUG] Crack Attempts

From: Chuck Hast (wchast@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jul 25 2005 - 10:19:03 EDT


On 7/25/05, William Coulter <wrcoulter30@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I found this today on freshmeat, and I thought that this might help in stoping attacks without
> user input.
> BLD 0.3.3 by Olivier Beyssac - Mon, Jul 25th 2005 03:13 PDT
>
> About: BLD stands for "blacklist daemon" and is intended to serve a blacklist. The blacklist is
> built by simply inserting IP addresses or by using submission rate limits based on a maximum
> number of submissions of the same IP address within a minimum time interval. A BLD cluster can be
> built by configuring the daemon to notify other similar daemon(s) every time an IP address is
> added to the blacklist. BLD was primarily designed to fight against dictionary-based spam (by
> making the MTA report to BLD any host that tries to send email to an unknown user), but can be
> used by any program
>
> I don't know if works for a business or a home use. I may give this atry myself.
>

Going to get it and give it a try.

-- 
Chuck Hast 
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
and twisted metal."

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