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On Dec 1, 2004, at 09:41, Charles Ulrich wrote:

>
> This morning I noticed that an attacker spent over a full hour trying 
> to
> brute-force accounts and passwords via ssh on one of our machines. 
> These kinds
> of attacks are becoming more frequent.
>
> I was wondering: does anyone know of a way to blacklist a certain IP 
> (ideally,
> just for a certain time period) after a certain number of failed login
> attempts via ssh? I could change the port that sshd listens on, but 
> I'd rather
> find a better solution, one that isn't just another layer of obscurity.

I tried null routing their addresses and that stops that address.  
However, a day or so later they are back from a different address.  
After a couple months of this I changed the ports.  Its a real pain.