Hi Phil, Happy New Year!
Well, that's a fair question and I could have mentioned that it was running the whole time I was gone on vacation (from which I returned yesterday). So there were intermittent, about normal levels, new denied hosts during that time. (However, even if it hadn't been running, 60 new hosts would have been a very high number on this computer.) My first thought was that I work on a campus with some 70,000 networked computers and, having just come back from vacation, other employees' machines kicked into bot mode and started trying to crack into my machine. However, my machine stays on while I'm out and the IP addresses of the attacking hosts do not reflect any pattern such as being from elsewhere on campus or even in this city or state. That prompted me to just throw the question out there to see if anyone else saw a jump yesterday. The only other thing I can think of (besides the possibility of it just being an aberration which is the most likely answer) is that the machine is being targeted by a distributed botnet. I guess time will tell. At least the hosts are being synced which very likely would not be the case without DenyHosts, so thanks again for the software! Thanks, Robert Phil Schwartz wrote: > > By any chance, had the DH daemon stopped working for awhile? If so, and > you restarted it, that might explain it. Otherwise, I haven't noticed a > huge spike in the hosts I run DH on. > > Phil > > On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Robert Wyatt wrote: > >> Wow, I had 60 new denied hosts yesterday. This is an unusually high >> number (as many as I usually see in six months on this machine) and so >> I wondered if others also saw an increase. It seems to have slowed >> back down today. >> >> --Robert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Denyhosts-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/denyhosts-user
