[asterisk-users] Being attacked by an Amazon EC2 ...

[Martin]

>Its a good idea tos setup Fail2ban, instructions for which are on 
>voip-info.org. It at least blocks such IP addresses, hopefully prompting the 
>attackers to move their >attack somewhere else and leave you alone.
I personally use Fail2ban, it works but wont keep you from flooding your line. 
My last attacker kept trying for 3 days....

>Another good idea is to lookup in whois database this IP address and see if you 
>can find contact info for the person responsible for this IP address. Then 
>contact them >and let them know about this incident.
>You can also try to ask your ISP if they can block it on their end.
Fail2ban can send you a Whois info about every blocked IP. Im just not sure if 
any kind of reporting will help :-(

>Zeeshan A Zakaria
Martin L