Max Wanadoo
max.wanadoo at gmail.com
Thu Mar 18 13:56:02 CDT 2010
Doug, I use FileZilla Server (free) and that maintains a list of banned IP addresses as well as a log showing who was trying to get in. Blocked Ips can be timed specific. Not sure about FileZilla Client, but may have the same. I log them and then check back on what names they were using to try to guess the password - quite funny some of them. There are others. New: Automatically block IP addresses after a specific number of failed login attempts. http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/html/quick__n_easy_ftp_server.html http://software.informer.com/getfree-bullet-ftp-block-ip-address/ Do a google for "ftp block ip addresses" Max -----Original Message----- From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Doug Steele Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:32 PM To: Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues. Subject: Re: [dba-VB] Goin' for the (browser based) gold Hi Jim: I have been using a Filezilla server for some time to transfer data from clients. The one annoying problem I have is that I'll look at the server screen in the morning, and some 14 year old in China has been trying to brute force the password all night, getting kicked off on every third wrong guess then logging right back in. I've never had a successful break in, but it's annoying - do you have a solution for this? I can't limit the incoming ip range as the server is picking up data from client computers which can be all over the place. Thanks, Doug On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > Hi Gustav: > > Why not try FileZila...many of my clients use this package because it > is so secure. (http://filezilla-project.org) > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ dba-VB mailing list dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb http://www.databaseadvisors.com