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Date:      Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:32:51 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Charles Ulrich" <charles@idealso.com>
To:        "Josh Paetzel" <josh@tcbug.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: blacklisting failed ssh attempts
Message-ID:  <48465.24.11.146.21.1101997971.squirrel@24.11.146.21>
In-Reply-To: <200412011204.10599.josh@tcbug.org>
References:  <43711.24.11.146.21.1101922894.squirrel@24.11.146.21> <200412011204.10599.josh@tcbug.org>

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Josh Paetzel said:
> This may or may not help you, but I generally firewall ssh so that
> only known addresses can get in.  (whitelisting as opposed to
> blacklisting)

Thanks for the tip. We actually do this on some of our servers, but this is a
web server that we need to get to quickly should it stop working. It's looking
like I might just put ssh on a non-standard port and think about an IDS if
there these kind of attacks continue.

-- 
Charles Ulrich
Ideal Solution, LLC - http://www.idealso.com



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