Wow.
usul:/etc# wc -l hosts.deny 29836 hosts.deny
Holy cow! All this since May 14th 2006.
Non-nerd translation: If you try to login to my server via SSH, Denyhosts adds your hostname to the block list after a certain number of bad usernames or passwords. Since May 2006, there have been 29,836 such hosts added to the blocklist. All are botnet-driven Windows boxes, trying dictionary and default passwords, but its still pretty annoying. I wonder how well tcpwrappers, which has to parse this file for every connection, scales?
