Re: Blocking many accesses to ssh port from single IP

> Tonight I got 800+ attempts from the same IP. I played with manually > blocking the IP, but it was over before I got the firewall rules written > and looked over them twice. > > Is there any way to block/limit the number of connections to a port in a > given time period? I was getting around

Re: [ DHCP ] must reboot to works.

It may be a DNS issue. Are you using a local, caching only nameserver? Sometimes, I have to restart bind/named when my ISP recycles my dhcp based ip address.