From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 13 12:51:10 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95DD216A407 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:51:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@bsdly.net) Received: from skapet.datadok.no (skapet.datadok.no [194.54.107.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5734A13C45D for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:51:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@bsdly.net) Received: from thingy.bsdly.net ([10.168.103.11] helo=thingy.datadok.no.bsdly.net ident=peter) by skapet.datadok.no with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H5iLl-0006iY-0j for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 13:51:09 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <45A81F60.70401@chapman.edu> From: peter@bsdly.net (Peter N. M. Hansteen) Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 13:51:07 +0100 In-Reply-To: <45A81F60.70401@chapman.edu> (Jay Chandler's message of "Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:53:04 -0800") Message-ID: <87mz4nw0n8.fsf@thingy.datadok.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.19 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Please Help! How to STOP them... 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: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:51:10 -0000 Jay Chandler writes: > Please, please, PLEASE RTFM. If that's too much to ask, try taking a > class, hiring a consultant, or using a more user-friendly OS. FreeBSD *is* user friendly. The simple (and fun to watch!) solution involves using PF (not sure if this can be easily done with the other firewalls FreeBSD has on tap) with 'overload' rules, ie http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/bruteforce.html -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.