Phailomatic

Phailomatic, is an intrusion prevention/denial of service mitigation tool written in PHP. Phailomatic was created for use in a situation where Fail2ban wasn't a good option for somewhat unusual circumstances. I still use Fail2ban on other systems because of its versatility and the fact that someone else (upstream and my distro) maintains it.

Phailomatic was written in something of a hurry, in the middle of some other projects.  I may substantially re-write it sometime, because the code is ugly.

Features

• Small-ish Phailomatic is around 900 lines of code and comments. Denyhosts and Fail2ban are around 2800 and 7000 lines of commented code, respectively.
• Simple. Or at least I'm trying hard to make it simple.
• PHP. If you see this as a feature, Phailomatic may be useful to you. Otherwise, I suggest you look into Fail2ban (Python) or Denyhosts (Python).
• Configurable firewalling commands.

Support

You can ask for help with Phailomatic on the mailing list.

License, Documentation:

View the current: README • manpage • License (GPL)

Version history:

• v1.0 February 6, 2014

Requirements, Download(s):

Requires PHP 5.2 or greater with PCRE.  Can use POSIX and PCNTL if available to self-daemonize. Written for iptables, but should be able to be configured to use any (un-)firewalling commands where only the IP address and port number change.

• Download Phailomatic v.1.0 (tar.gz) (zip)
• Git Repository

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