Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:19:27 +0600 From: Bachilo Dmitry <bocha@academ.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong? Message-ID: <200611131219.27949.bocha@academ.org> In-Reply-To: <20061113060528.GA7646@best.com> References: <20061113060528.GA7646@best.com>
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=F7 =D3=CF=CF=C2=DD=C5=CE=C9=C9 =CF=D4 =F0=CF=CE=C5=C4=C5=CC=D8=CE=C9=CB 13= =CE=CF=D1=C2=D2=D1 2006 12:05 Leo L. Schwab =CE=C1=D0=C9=D3=C1=CC(a): > I recently installed FreeBSD 6.1 on my gateway. It replaced an > installation of FreeBSD 4.6.8 (fresh install, not an upgrade) on which I > had disabled the SSH server. Since all the bugs in SSH are fixed now ( := =2D) > ), I thought I'd leave the server on, and am somewhat dismayed to discover > that I now get occasional brute-force/dictionary attacks on the port. > > A little Googling revealed a couple of potentially useful tools: > 'sshit' and 'bruteblock', both of which notice repeated login attempts fr= om > a given IP address and blackhole it in the firewall. I first tried > 'sshit', but after a couple days, I noticed in my daily reports that I was > still getting lengthy bruteforce attempts, suggesting the 'sshit' was not > working. > > So I uninstalled 'sshit' and installed 'bruteblock'. But again a > couple days later, the logs showed lengthy bruteforce attempts going > unblocked. > > The relevant lines from my /etc/syslog.conf file are: > > ---- > auth.info;authpriv.info /var/log/auth.log > auth.info;authpriv.info | exec /usr/local/sbin/bruteblock -f > /usr/local/etc/bruteblock/ssh.conf ---- > > Any hints as to what I might be doing wrong? > > Thanks, > Schwab > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Why don't you just relax? :-) All my FreeBSD servers are bruteforced every= =20 second. So what?=20 =2D-=20 =2D----------------------- =F3 =D5=D7=C1=D6=C5=CE=C9=C5=CD, =E2=C1=DE=C9=CC=CF =E4=CD=C9=D4=D2=C9=CA Best Regards, Bachilo Dmitry
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