When denyhosts is active and has set up some hosts to deny, then emerging =net-misc/openssh-6.9_p1-r2 will fail in pkg_setup(): * Package: net-misc/openssh-6.9_p1-r2 * Repository: gentoo * Maintainer: robbat2@gentoo.org base-system@gentoo.org * USE: X elibc_glibc hpn hppa kernel_linux pam pie sctp ssl test userland_GNU * FEATURES: compressdebug distcc preserve-libs sandbox splitdebug test userpriv usersandbox * Sorry, but openssh no longer supports tcp-wrappers, and it seems like * you're trying to use it. Update your /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} please. * ERROR: net-misc/openssh-6.9_p1-r2::gentoo failed (setup phase): * USE=tcpd no longer works * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 93: Called pkg_setup * openssh-6.9_p1-r2.ebuild, line 99: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * die "USE=tcpd no longer works" * * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=net-misc/openssh-6.9_p1-r2::gentoo'`, * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=net-misc/openssh-6.9_p1-r2::gentoo'`. * The complete build log is located at '/keeps/gentoo/emergelogs/karsten/net-misc:openssh-6.9_p1-r2:20150719-071254.log'. * For convenience, a symlink to the build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/net-misc/openssh-6.9_p1-r2/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/net-misc/openssh-6.9_p1-r2/temp/die.env'. * Working directory: '/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages' * S: '/var/tmp/portage/net-misc/openssh-6.9_p1-r2/work/openssh-6.9p1'
=app-admin/denyhosts-2.9 can use iptables instead of tcp-wrappers should we just stabilize that one?
Tried =app-admin/denyhosts-2.9 and was unable to get iptables blocking working. I've switched to fail2ban, which IMO is far superior software and I won't be looking back, however Denyhosts continues with v3 as a fork from Github: https://github.com/denyhosts/
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 531156 ***
app-admin/denyhosts-2.9 is becoming stable (bug #556522).
