IPQ BDB filter

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Analyzed about 1 year ago. based on code collected about 1 year ago.

Project Summary

IPQ BDB filtering is done by a user space daemon that issues verdicts after looking up the IP address in a Berkeley DB. The fuzzy blocking model, freely inspired by STOCKADE, is designed to block non-distributed dictionary attacks:
IPQ BDB filter may be considered as a fail2ban lite. Besides the daemon, this tiny package includes utilities to insert IP addresses from the command line, or parsing log files, and for deleting unused records and do some whitelisting.
As it requires Netfilter it is probably only usable under the Linux kernel 2.6.14 or later. In addition, it requires the following packages:

In a Nutshell, IPQ BDB filter...

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has had 87 commits made by 1 contributors
representing 11,245 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with an average number of source code comments
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by one developer
with increasing Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 3 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in December, 2008
ending with its most recent commit about 1 year ago

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