they are originating from the high ports, arriving on port 22 at your box. this is normal. in a default setup sshd only listens on port 22.
-- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Cholewa > Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 8:43 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: autoblocking many ssh failed logins from the same IP.... > > > Jun 30 10:36:05 phantom sshd[70478]: Failed password for news > from 212.88.182.121 port 51218 ssh2 > Jun 30 10:36:16 phantom sshd[70500]: Failed password for sshd > from 212.88.182.121 port 51608 ssh2 > Jun 30 10:36:39 phantom sshd[70569]: Failed password for root > from 212.88.182.121 port 52297 ssh2 > > I get the above a lot in my logs (except more of it). Each day, > a couple hundred failed attempts to log in from one or sometimes > two IP addresses shows up. I don't have anything like ipf > running, and since this machine is about fifteen hundred miles > away from me, I don't want to experiment with software > firewalling right now. > > That known, is there any way to tell sshd (or some more powerful > daemon) to stop accepting login attempts from a given IP if it > tries and fails to log in too many times in a limited duration > (like in the same minute)? > > I suppose, now that I'm thinking about it, that it'd be best to > actually just read the man pages and figure out how to get sshd > to ignore any attempt to attach from ports other than 22. I > mean, why are other machines trying to ssh in at ports over fifty > thousand anyway? > > -- > -JC > http://www.livejournal.com/users/jcholewa/ > > PS: Oh, yeah ... "FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: Thu Apr 3 10:53:38 > GMT 2003" ; openssh-3.6.1_5 ; openssl-0.9.7d_1 > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"