[Denyhosts-user] DenyHosts vs Fail2Ban

[Nils B. (L. Internet) <ni...@le...>]

Hello,

I've used DenyHosts in the past and I'm currently using Fail2Ban [1].  
The obvious differences I found is that Fail2Ban blocks hosts using  
firewall rules, whereas DenyHosts uses /etc/hosts.deny. I know that  
DenyHosts can be extended to (also) use firewall rules, but I like  
Fail2Ban because it works like that out of the box. Can anybody point  
out to me what the other differences between these two scripts are  
and why you would choose one over the other?

Thanks,

Nils Breunese.

[1] http://fail2ban.sourceforge.net/