invalid login attempts not refused using deny hosts and conf of denyhost not working as expected

[Alan Pope]

On 28 October 2010 11:18, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am using denyhosts on a server ( I know IPTABLE rate limiting etc
> just testing this one)
> so in a config file
> /etc/denyhosts.conf
> the following value is set
> DENY_THRESHOLD_INVALID = 3
>

Did you retsart denyhosts after changing this value?

sudo service denyhosts restart


Al.