On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 02:03:45AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 02:15:08PM +0100, Barbie wrote: > > > It seems the CPAN Testers server went catatonic at around 09:00 UTC this > > morning, and wasn't processing any external requests, including ssh. I > > checked it this morning before going to work and all seemed fine. > > It's hosted at hetzner.de isn't it? My hetzner box seems to attract > all sorts of nasty people who hammer on the ssh port trying to get in. > I made the problem go away by: > > 1. running two sshds, one of them on a non-standard port. Two *seperate* > daemons, not just one daemon listening on two ports; > > 2. running sshblack to automatically whack-a-mole attackers
Thanks for the suggestions Dave, I'll probably look into implementing both of those. I was already thinking how to give ssh a higher priority, with 2 daemons that might work better :) Cheers, Barbie. -- Birmingham Perl Mongers <http://birmingham.pm.org> Memoirs Of A Roadie <http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk> CPAN Testers Blog <http://blog.cpantesters.org>
