Hi, it seems there is a bug in pfctl regarding the cleared time of a table entry. The attack actually happend this year, but the date shown is constantly changing:
# pfctl -t bruteforce -vT show 81.38.199.134 Cleared: Sun Apr 12 18:24:16 2009 88.183.20.179 Cleared: Sun Apr 12 18:24:16 2009 210.51.48.71 Cleared: Sun Apr 12 18:24:16 2009 # pfctl -t bruteforce -vT show 81.38.199.134 Cleared: Sun Apr 12 18:24:16 2009 88.183.20.179 Cleared: Sun Apr 12 18:24:16 2009 210.51.48.71 Cleared: Sun Apr 12 18:24:16 2009 # pfctl -t bruteforce -vT show 81.38.199.134 Cleared: Mon Apr 13 03:30:24 2009 88.183.20.179 Cleared: Mon Apr 13 03:30:24 2009 210.51.48.71 Cleared: Mon Apr 13 03:30:24 2009 # pfctl -t bruteforce -vT show 81.38.199.134 Cleared: Sun Jul 6 11:53:04 1986 88.183.20.179 Cleared: Sun Jul 6 11:53:04 1986 210.51.48.71 Cleared: Sun Jul 6 11:53:04 1986 # grep 81.38.199.134 /var/log/authlog Jan 20 12:42:17 warden sshd[12934]: Did not receive identification string from 81.38.199.134 Jan 20 12:42:21 warden sshd[13182]: Failed password for root from 81.38.199.134 port 21471 ssh2 Jan 20 12:42:21 warden sshd[30963]: Received disconnect from 81.38.199.134: 11: Goodbye Jan 20 12:42:25 warden sshd[25143]: Failed password for root from 81.38.199.134 port 21590 ssh2 Jan 20 12:42:25 warden sshd[10472]: Received disconnect from 81.38.199.134: 11: Goodbye Jan 20 12:42:32 warden sshd[18071]: Failed password for root from 81.38.199.134 port 21689 ssh2 Jan 20 12:42:32 warden sshd[22432]: Received disconnect from 81.38.199.134: 11: Goodbye Jan 20 12:42:36 warden sshd[6172]: Failed password for root from 81.38.199.134 port 21883 ssh2 Jan 20 12:42:36 warden sshd[18517]: Received disconnect from 81.38.199.134: 11: Goodbye Jan 20 12:42:40 warden sshd[4324]: Failed password for root from 81.38.199.134 port 21999 ssh2 Jan 20 12:42:42 warden sshd[29797]: Received disconnect from 81.38.199.134: 11: Goodbye Jan 20 12:42:49 warden sshd[21681]: Failed password for root from 81.38.199.134 port 22104 ssh2 Jan 20 12:42:50 warden sshd[11246]: Received disconnect from 81.38.199.134: 11: Goodbye Jan 20 12:42:56 warden sshd[14492]: Failed password for root from 81.38.199.134 port 22351 ssh2 Jan 20 12:42:57 warden sshd[20990]: Received disconnect from 81.38.199.134: 11: Goodbye Jan 20 12:43:00 warden sshd[13399]: Failed password for root from 81.38.199.134 port 22545 ssh2 Jan 20 12:43:03 warden sshd[16824]: Received disconnect from 81.38.199.134: 11: Goodbye Jan 20 12:43:07 warden sshd[29615]: Failed password for root from 81.38.199.134 port 22652 ssh2 Jan 20 12:43:08 warden sshd[32628]: Received disconnect from 81.38.199.134: 11: Goodbye # dmesg http://openbsd.lechtermann.net/pub/misc/dmesg.SUNv440