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Date:      Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:43:24 +0100
From:      peter@bsdly.net (Peter N. M. Hansteen)
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Onpening and Closing ports
Message-ID:  <87tzxqpko3.fsf@thingy.datadok.no>
In-Reply-To: <45CEC7A4.7030802@ephgroup.com> (Dave Carrera's message of "Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:37:08 %2B0000")
References:  <45CEC7A4.7030802@ephgroup.com>

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Dave Carrera <dave@ephgroup.com> writes:

> Had a little nasty person trying to break my sshd on port 22.

You can head them off rather easily with a short PF rule set, see
eg http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/bruteforce.html.  

They can actually be fun to watch :)

-- 
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.



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