Hello Kevin,

20 Mar 22 14:00, you wrote to Digimaus:

 KN> Well, I don't have that and it seems to be working ok. I'll see as
 KN> time goes on. There are only 2 rules right now. a DENY for the IP of
 KN> the offending person and a PERMIT for everything else. And that seems
 KN> to be working.

That means your firewall is not working right and allowing everything.  
Re-read the instructions again as the AIX firewall requires an ending DENY ALL 
entry.

 KN> I think this guy is coming from russia too, but it's weird and not
 KN> consistant. Sometimes he'll hit it once, other times he hits it fast
 KN> and often. That's when vmodem has a fit.

Yeah, they're a real pest.  I currently have something like 2000 IPs in my 
fail2ban recidive jail.  The price of doing business these days.

-- Sean

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