From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 5 16:33:52 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 200A31065676 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:33:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C23B8FC15 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:33:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o25GXn4X043848; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:33:49 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at daleco.biz Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ezekiel.daleco.biz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 7IDNkCV6Jiis; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:33:48 -0600 (CST) Received: from archangel.daleco.biz (ezekiel.daleco.biz [66.76.92.18]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o25GXcU5043841; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:33:44 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <4B913261.10801@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:33:37 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090929) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Seaman References: <20100305125446.GA14774@elwood.starfire.mn.org> <4B910139.1080908@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> <20100305132604.GC14774@elwood.starfire.mn.org> <1108389354.20100305154152@sng.by> <861vfy6add.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <20100305154654.GB17456@elwood.starfire.mn.org> <86sk8e4vhj.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <4B912C41.8090505@infracaninophile.co.uk> <86ocj24ujo.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <4B912F93.7010102@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4B912F93.7010102@infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:12:31 +0000 Cc: John , Anton , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Programmer In Training , "Randal L. Schwartz" Subject: Re: Thousands of ssh probes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:33:52 -0000 Matthew Seaman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/03/2010 16:12:11, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >>>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Seaman writes: >> Matthew> On 05/03/2010 15:51:52, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >>>> The spamtrap is a shiny object for spam, and anything that goes there gets >>>> blocked for an hour from hitting the low port. I presented this at a >>>> conference once. >> Matthew> Having an IPv6-only high-mx seems to terminally confuse most spambots... >> >> Oooh! And arpnetworks gives me a /48 in 6 for free. I could have thousands of >> them. :) > > Thousands? Try billions. Sagans and sagans. More than the maximum > possible number of hosts on the IPv4 internet. Muha ha Ha!!!!! I'd think we might have to increase the size of the container for /etc/rc.conf to do that, though? At any rate, that'd be a lot of "ifconfig" to read/edit/etc. KDK