On 11 June 2014 10:04, Jerry James <loganje...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote:
> > Usually the best thing would be to open a infrastructure ticket.
> >
> > I've hopefully fixed your IP too now tho. ;)
>
> This kind of problem is just going to keep happening to those of us
> with dynamic IP addresses from large ISPs.  Plus, since there are
> multiple possible causes of the error message that gets generated as a
> result, it takes the poor sap who experiences the problem some time
> and difficulty to figure out that his IP address has been blocked at
> the server side.  (I speak from experience.)
>
> I hate to say it, but maybe denyhosts shouldn't be used in this case.
>

It happens maybe once a month which while annoying is better than having
the server not responding to ssh because 4000 bots are trying to login with
"root", "password" and "bin", "password", etc etc.



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