Hello list, I have a strange situation and would like information from the list members. I have three Linux boxes exposed to the Internet. Two of them are on cable modems, and both have two services that are publicly available. In both cases, I have SSH and named running and available to the public. Before you folks say it, yes I run SSH on TCP/22 and no I don't want to move it to another port, and no I don't want to restrict it to certain source IPs.
Both of these systems are within one /21 and get attacked regularly. I run Denyhosts on them, and update the central server once an hour with attacking IPs, and obviously also download the public hosts.deny list. These machines get hit regularly, so often that I don't really care, it's fun to make the script kiddies waste their time! But in this instance, only my home box is being attacked... someone is burning a lot of cycles and hosts to do a distributed dictionary attack on my one box! The named daemon is non recursive, properly configured, up to date and not being attacked. Is anyone else seeing this type of attack? Or is someone really targeting MY box? Thanks Gary Baribault Courriel: g...@baribault.net GPG Key: 0x685430d1 Signature: 9E4D 1B7C CB9F 9239 11D9 71C3 6C35 C6B7 6854 30D1 _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/