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Package denyhosts in Ubuntu Trusty Tahr is deleted: temporary or forever?

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While doing a test-upgrade of our Ubuntu server to 14.04, I found that the package DenyHosts is no longer available. Installing it gives following error:

apt-get install denyhosts

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

E: Unable to locate package denyhosts

Apparently it has been deleted, according to launchpad.

Will Denyhosts be available in the final release of Ubuntu 14.04?

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answered 3 Years ago calcur · Accepted Answer

I am sorry denyhosts has reached this stage, but I think you answered your own question :

dead upstream; unmaintained; dysfunctional in sid

Unmaintained upstream projects will reside in the repos, with patches, until the packages can no longer patch, so looks like the end for denyhosts.

My best advice is to look for alternates.

Personally I harden my ssh server

And use iptables

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -m recent --set --name SSH --rsource -j ACCEPT

sudo iptables -A INPUT -m recent --update --seconds 600 --hitcount 8 --rttl --name SSH --rsource -j DROP

See http://bodhizazen.com/Tutorials/iptables

all the links in this post are from my LUG ;)