PortSentry - annoyed by port scans?

[KorpDeath]

PortSentry by Psionic is a cool lil' utility that allows you to monitor in realtime port scans and take countermeasures (if that is you pleasure, I wouldn't).
Anyway it's, again, free.

http://www.psionic.com/products/portsentry.html

From the site:

PortSentry is a program designed to detect and respond to port scans against a target host in real-time. The 2.0 version of the software offers extensive stealth scan detection for most Unix platforms. The 1.1 version supports the "classic" PortSentry detection modes that are no longer available in the 2.0 version of the software.

Features

Stealth port scan detection for all Unix platforms. PortSentry will detect SYN/half-open, FIN, NULL, X-MAS and oddball packet stealth scans.
PortSentry will react to a port scan attempt by blocking the host in real-time protecting your system from reconnassaince probes, auto-scanners, and targeted system attacks.
PortSentry will report all violations to the local or remote syslog daemons indicating the system name, time of attack, attacking host IP and the TCP or UDP port a connection attempt was made to. When used in conjunction with LogSentry it will provide an alert to administrators through e-mail.
Once a scan is detected, your system will turn into a blackhole and disappear from the attacker. This feature stops most attacks cold.
As with all of the Tri-Sentry tools, PortSentry is designed to have an easy configuration and be maintenance free.

[str34m3r]

There are several people I work with who also swear by port sentry. As far as I can tell, it's very effective at protecting their systems. My only problem with it is that it sends tons of information to syslog. And since we have a syslog server that I have to read the logs for, I get annoyed when I see page after page after page of port sentry complaining that it's being attacked by the name server. Now I know that's just a misconfiguration on someone's part, but even when it's configured correctly, it's still very chatty.

[KorpDeath]

Agreed. It took me a while to get it just right but, otherwise, it's really solid.