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Re: swamp rat bots Q

From Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: swamp rat bots Q
Date 2020-12-03 20:00 +0100
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On Thursday 03 December 2020 09:14:29 Greg Wooledge wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 09:02:47AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Yes John. But explain to me what fail2ban is sopposed to do?
>
> It's supposed to "monitor" (tail -F equivalent) your log files, and
> look for anomalies.  If it finds one, it's supposed to take action,
> which is typically adding an entry to iptables.
>
> > Its running, but has failed to ban anything no matter what sort of
> > 403's I return.
>
> You need to configure it.  Tell it what log files to read, what is to
> be considered an anomaly, and what action to take.

And where do I do that?

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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swamp rat bots Q Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-03 14:00 +0100
  Re: swamp rat bots Q john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2020-12-03 14:10 +0100
    Re: swamp rat bots Q Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-03 15:10 +0100
      Re: swamp rat bots Q Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-12-03 15:20 +0100
        Re: swamp rat bots Q Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-03 20:00 +0100
          Re: swamp rat bots Q Håkon Alstadheim <hakon@alstadheim.priv.no> - 2020-12-03 22:00 +0100
          Re: swamp rat bots Q Keith Christian <keith1christian@gmail.com> - 2020-12-03 22:30 +0100
      Re: swamp rat bots Q john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2020-12-03 16:40 +0100
  Re: swamp rat bots Q Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2020-12-04 03:20 +0100
    Re: swamp rat bots Q Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-04 06:10 +0100
      Re: swamp rat bots Q Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2020-12-04 07:10 +0100
        Re: swamp rat bots Q john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2020-12-04 07:40 +0100
          Re: swamp rat bots Q Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-04 08:00 +0100
        Re: swamp rat bots Q Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-04 07:50 +0100
          Re: swamp rat bots Q john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2020-12-04 08:20 +0100
          Re: swamp rat bots Q Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2020-12-04 08:50 +0100
      Re: swamp rat bots Q "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2020-12-04 11:50 +0100
        Re: swamp rat bots Q Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-04 14:50 +0100
      Re: swamp rat bots Q Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-12-04 12:00 +0100
  Re: swamp rat bots Q "hdv@gmail" <hdv.jadev@gmail.com> - 2020-12-04 10:00 +0100
    Re: swamp rat bots Q Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-04 14:50 +0100
      Re: swamp rat bots Q Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-12-04 18:40 +0100
        Re: swamp rat bots Q grumpy@mailfence.com - 2020-12-04 19:10 +0100
          Re: swamp rat bots Q Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-12-04 19:20 +0100
            Re: swamp rat bots Q Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2020-12-04 19:30 +0100
            Re: swamp rat bots Q Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-04 21:00 +0100
        Re: swamp rat bots Q Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-04 21:00 +0100
          Re: swamp rat bots Q Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-12-04 22:20 +0100
            Re: swamp rat bots Q Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-04 23:10 +0100
              Re: swamp rat bots Q Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-12-04 23:40 +0100
                Re: swamp rat bots Q Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-05 01:00 +0100
                Re: swamp rat bots Q Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-12-05 11:00 +0100
                Re: swamp rat bots Q elvis <elvis@dogonfire.com> - 2020-12-05 01:50 +0100
                Re: swamp rat bots Q grumpy@mailfence.com - 2020-12-05 02:00 +0100
    Web-bot tarpit aka spider trap (was: swamp rat bots Q) Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2020-12-04 15:10 +0100
      Re: Web-bot tarpit aka spider trap (was: swamp rat bots Q) Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-04 17:10 +0100
        Re: Web-bot tarpit aka spider trap (was: swamp rat bots Q) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-12-04 22:10 +0100
          Re: Web-bot tarpit aka spider trap (was: swamp rat bots Q) "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2020-12-06 20:20 +0100
            Re: Web-bot tarpit aka spider trap (was: swamp rat bots Q) David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-12-06 21:30 +0100
            Re: Web-bot tarpit aka spider trap (was: swamp rat bots Q) Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-12-06 23:10 +0100
              Re: Web-bot tarpit aka spider trap (was: swamp rat bots Q) Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-12-07 02:30 +0100
                Re: Web-bot tarpit aka spider trap (was: swamp rat bots Q) Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2020-12-07 04:00 +0100

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