Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 22:46:54 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>, "Stephen Hovey" <shovey@buffnet.net>, "W. D." <WD@US-Webmasters.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to stop SPAMMER??! Message-ID: <017801c2893d$5cd098a0$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20021110034425.04b7c9d0@us-webmasters.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20021110210555.046f49d0@us-webmasters.com> <00aa01c2893a$49b06280$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable>
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From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> > From: "W. D." <WD@US-Webmasters.com> > Subject: Re: How to stop SPAMMER??! > > > Well, now we see why the file comments suggest that wrapping > sshd is *not* such a good idea...... > > Get the IP block of the system(s) from which you are remotely > adminning the server into hosts.allow with something like this > at the top: > > all: 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 : allow > > This is a sample netblock that makes sure hosts on my/the* > LAN have access to the machine....figure out the netblock > of your ISP at the home, office, or home office, and try, > try, again..... > > HTH, > > Kevin Kinsey > DaleCo, S.P. > > *Your LAN may differ, of course..... And, FWIW, hosts.allow is pretty 'ready to go' straight from 'the box.' Lots of examples...... Also, if I remember the O.P., you're running 4.4 or 4.5----are you keeping up with patches? Surely an upgrade would be in order to address any issues that appeared over the summer... My $.02 Kevin Kinsey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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