antirez/redis — pull request #1241 by wolfgang42 (2013-08-12 18:15:48+00:00)
Title: New config option: auth-maxtries, which disconnects the client after a c...

New config option: auth-maxtries, which disconnects the client after a certain number of failed AUTH attempts. The host can then be configured (with iptables, or equivalent) to rate-limit the number of incoming connections, reducing the number of passwords that can be tried per second significantly.