Does LxGuard work??? This is the alert email sent to me from CSF firewall:
IP: 218.145.71.229 (KR/Korea, Republic of/freeto.net)
Failures: 10 (ftpd)
Interval: 3600 seconds
Blocked: Permanent Block
Log entries:
Jul 15 00:24:02 server2 pure-ftpd: (
?@218.145.71.229) [WARNING]
Authentication failed for user [administrator]
Jul 15 00:24:09 server2 pure-ftpd: (?@ 218.145.71.229) [WARNING]
Authentication failed for user [administrator]
Jul 15 00:24:21 server2 pure-ftpd: (?@ 218.145.71.229) [WARNING]
Authentication failed for user [administrator]
Jul 15 00:24:33 server2 pure-ftpd: (?@ 218.145.71.229) [WARNING]
Authentication failed for user [administrator]
Jul 15 00:24:45 server2 pure-ftpd: (?@ 218.145.71.229) [WARNING]
Authentication failed for user [administrator]
Jul 15 00:24:49 server2 pure-ftpd: (?@ 218.145.71.229) [WARNING]
Authentication failed for user [administrator]
Jul 15 00:24:53 server2 pure-ftpd: (?@ 218.145.71.229) [WARNING]
Authentication failed for user [administrator]
Jul 15 00:25:04 server2 pure-ftpd: (?@ 218.145.71.229) [WARNING]
Authentication failed for user [administrator]
Jul 15 00:25:13 server2 pure-ftpd: (?@ 218.145.71.229) [WARNING]
Authentication failed for user [administrator]
Jul 15 00:25:18 server2 pure-ftpd: (?@ 218.145.71.229) [WARNING]
Authentication failed for user [administrator]
LxGuard is set to 5 wrong attempts. CSF is set to 10. LxGuard NEVER blocked this attempt.
This is a serious problem for those who are not using CSF and are depending on LxGuard.