Hi,

Am I the only one to be seeing lots of hits on my ssh ports from Linux 
boxes? I got absolutely hammered by a machine belonging to an ISP yesterday 
- 50+ hits/second - so much so that I re-wrote my guard-bot. They seem to 
have unplugged the box since I phoned them - they promised to call back but 
never have done.

Since then I've been seeing intermittent hits (but no bursts). I saw the 
warning re ssh vulnerabilities but I though this only affected which hosts 
users connected from (surely nobody would only use the IP address/host key 
as authentication?). I suppose this would still allow someone to mount a 
dictionary attack where password authentication was enabled.

....or am I missing something?

If there's any SSH/security gurus out there....if I've compiled against the 
tcp-wrappers library does this bug affect access controls implemented with 
hosts.allow/deny or is it just in the

Colin

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