Hello All,

I've decided on a different way of stoping problems in their tracks concerning 
script kiddies.  I'm going to DMZ my server off of my parents' router and use 
ufw to manipulate iptables.  I've configured fail2ban to monitor SSH, telnet, 
and ProFTPd.  I'm using "built-in" filters for SSH and ProFTPd.  I wrote my 
own for telnet.

I'll give it a few days and we'll see what happens since the BBS is still 
covered by my parents' router's firewall.  If fail2ban works as it should, 
I'll install ufw, get that set up, then DMZ the BBS.  It'd be a lot easier 
than having to set up a separate pfSense box at this time.

In case anyone's wondering, here's the telnet filter I wrote (this is 
Slackware-specific):

[INCLUDES]
before = paths-slackware.conf

[Definition]
failregex = in.*:\s+connect from\s+<HOST>

Short but sweet.

Later,
Sean

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