Blacklisting repeated login tries

[Damien Miller]

John M Collins wrote:
> Please CC jmc AT xisl.com on any reply as I'm not subscribed.
> We are getting several thousand login tries daily all from the same IP each
> try.
> 
> It would be a great help to automatically refuse connections from a given IP
> after a certain number of failed login attempts.

Please check the list archives for past discussion on this request.

-d