Kirk Hilzinger wrote:
> I was afraid that was the answer. I guess something more in the line of
> intrusion protection. Thank you, anyway.
>
> "Bernard Cheah [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Not automatically......
>>
>> Anyway, as for the request - this would best done at firewall/router level.
>> Even if IIS is able to auto block offensive IP, it still requires to
>> response with 403.6 status code. If the attack traffic is huge, IIS going to
>> suffer as well.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Bernard Cheah
>> http://www.iis.net/
>> http://www.iis-resources.com/
>> http://msmvps.com/blogs/bernard/
>>
>>
>> "Walter Weiss" <wewalt@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:u4v01O82GHA.1068@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> on the FTP sitemanager go to properties -> directory security there you
>>> can block or allow any IP you want.
>>>
>>> Walter
>>> IIS support engeneer
>>>
>>>
>>> "Kirk Hilzinger" <KirkHilzinger@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>>> message news:46016F04-872A-4A61-8D8A-9E58A74AE2C9@microsoft.com...
>>>> Is there a way or software out there that will automatically block an IP
>>>> Address from connecting to an FTP server after a user definable number of
>>>> invalid logon attempts. Most of the attacks I get are for invalid user
>>>> names
>>>> and I would like to just kick that person off the server all-together
>>>> rather
>>>> than take up system resources and bandwidth. By the time I see it in the
>>>> log, the user is usually gone and I have to resort to reporting his IP
>>>> address to the ISP and blocking the IP at my hardware firewall.
>>>>
>>>> If not, I would suggest this for the new version of IIS that comes with
>>>> Longhorn.
>>>
>>
>>