Luke Shumaker <luke...@lukeshu.com> writes: > On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 12:46:51 -0500, > Joseph Graham wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 11:53:56AM -0500, Luke Shumaker wrote: >> > For security and administration reasons, the Parabola servers have >> > pretty much always had SSH on port 1863. >> >> Fake security. Pointless and annoying. > > It's not really security. It's administration. On port 22, there are > so many bogus requests, that looking at the SSH logs is pointless, > there's too much noise. On a weird port, you can look at the logs, > and have it be useful. And having admins that look at the logs is > better security.
and also because corporate networks usually block most outgoing ports including ssh but leave (left?) port 1863 open because of msn messenger B) -- :D
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
_______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@lists.parabola.nu https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
