We've used the CopSSH package to provide SSH and SFTP service on various Windows servers. Until now, we have not had a solution in place to block brute force attacks on the SSH server. We use the excellent fail2ban on our Linux systems, but we had not found a similar tool for Windows.
Yesterday we came across a solution to this problem:
http://www.itefix.no/i2/node/12081
It works very well on a Windows Server 2008 system where we've deployed it. The only thing it's lacking is a way to automatically remove banned IPs after a period of time. We'll post an addition to this tool if we implement this feature.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Saturday, January 2, 2010
64-bit MySQL, 32-bit Ruby
Happy New Year, everyone!
As is far too often the case these days, we ran into a problem while trying to make 32-bit software play nicely with 64-bit software. One of our OS X 10.5 workstations had 64-bit MySQL installed as well as fink's 32-bit ruby. It took some time to sort out, but we ultimately solved the problem by following these instructions. Thanks to Josh there for the creative (though rather hackish) solution!
Visit us: www.singlebrook.com
As is far too often the case these days, we ran into a problem while trying to make 32-bit software play nicely with 64-bit software. One of our OS X 10.5 workstations had 64-bit MySQL installed as well as fink's 32-bit ruby. It took some time to sort out, but we ultimately solved the problem by following these instructions. Thanks to Josh there for the creative (though rather hackish) solution!
Visit us: www.singlebrook.com
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