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Date:      Tue, 11 May 2004 21:08:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: rate limiting sshd connections ?
Message-ID:  <20040512040819.024F92C6A0@mx5.roble.com>
In-Reply-To: <F7B884F8-A38A-11D8-AAAF-0030654D97EC@patpro.net>
References:  <20040511190058.A8FC516A4DB@hub.freebsd.org> <F7B884F8-A38A-11D8-AAAF-0030654D97EC@patpro.net>

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>in fact, I've seen an Apple XServe (two G4 1GHz processors) running
>MacOS X Server beeing DOSed by a remote Nagios probe testing it's
>sshd once per minute.

Once per minute?  That's extremely unusual.  Do you mean once per
second?  I've got a Via M9000 that runs at 1GHz and has inetds
listening on several IPs that doesn't slow down with multiple
simultaneous nmaps.

>On OSX, sshd runs from xinetd.

Sounds like a configuration issue.

-- 
Roger Marquis
Roble Systems Consulting
http://www.roble.com/



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