On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Niles Ingalls <ni...@atheos.net> wrote:
> > On Oct 30, 2010, at 2:28 PM, Zeeshan Zakaria wrote: > > > My main asterisk server is under unusual heavy attack, and so far > > Fail2Ban has blocked about 30 IPs, from various different countries. > > At this time it is blocking about 1 IP address every few minutes. > > > > Just wondering if anybody else is also experiencing unusually > > increased hack attempts today? > > > > Zeeshan A Zakaria > > > It's been an extremely busy day for the exploiters. I moved my phone > system from one circuit that I have (10Mb) to another that is behind a > firewall (100Mb) and the fail2ban alerts are all gone. > I'm not really concerned that someone will determine the passwords, as > I use the phones serial numbers to determine that. But still, very > irritating to see so many attempts at exploiting my phone system. > fail2ban is nice, but I recommend you put your system behind a > firewall and only allow necessary connections. pfsense is doing the > trick for me. - Niles > > Ever hear of iptables?
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