pf and tables are your friends. On 11/01/10 11:30, onteria wrote: > I was checking my authlog today and noticed the following series of > brute force login attempts: > > Nov 1 01:37:04 solar sshd[8173]: Failed password for root from > 58.211.1.163 port 8895 ssh2 > Nov 1 01:37:04 solar sshd[10692]: Received disconnect from > 58.211.1.163: 11: Bye Bye > Nov 1 01:37:06 solar sshd[6273]: Failed password for root from > 58.211.1.163 port 9052 ssh2 > Nov 1 01:37:06 solar sshd[21047]: Received disconnect from > 58.211.1.163: 11: Bye Bye > > First off login as root is disabled, so not much they can do here, but > I'd like to try and setup up some kind of throttling protection for > these sorts of attacks. Unfortunately they keep changing ports, so the > traditional port 22 protection isn't going to work. I'm wondering if > there's something similar to spamd for sshd that can handle this sort of > throttling before handing off to the real server, or if sshd has some > functionality to do that on its own. Thanks ahead of time for any > suggestions. > > - Onteria >
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