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Date:      Sat, 4 Jun 2005 13:47:32 -0400
From:      Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>
To:        John Brooks <john@day-light.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: inbound ssh ceased on 4 servers at same time
Message-ID:  <20050604174732.GG79969@numachi.com>
In-Reply-To: <NHBBKEEMKJDINKDJBJHGOEMAJAAD.john@day-light.com>
References:  <NHBBKEEMKJDINKDJBJHGOEMAJAAD.john@day-light.com>

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On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 12:10:28AM -0500, John Brooks wrote:
> today at about noon, all four freebsd servers on a clients lan
> quit accepting ssh connections.

I've been seeing a lot of brute-force sshd attacks, which leave
a lot of connections in an awkward state.  I've done this for my
primary sshd server, and seems to have alleviated my problems:

LoginGraceTime 60
MaxStartups 10:30:60

> --
> John Brooks
> john@day-light.com 

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Brian Reichert				<reichert@numachi.com>
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