Re: bsdnews.com aka daemonnews.org status?

2006-09-28 Thread Jakob Breivik Grimstveit
On 9/27/06, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone know what has happened to bsdnews.com aka daemonnews.org? The latest week or so the website has been unreachable. 15. Sept Chris Coleman wrote on daemonnews.org: "As you may have noticed, we have been down for a while

Re: Party

2006-09-28 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday 28 September 2006 11:14, Thierry Thomas wrote: > Le Jeu 28 sep 06 à 16:19:42 +0200, John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > écrivait : > > > ports/security/bruteblock (there's another one for pf, this one is for ipfw) > > No need for an external tool with pf. Just add this kind of rule:

Re: Party

2006-09-28 Thread David King
What can be done to keep the logs neat (i.e., free from the ssh- bruteforce garbage) is this: for a given number of login failures (e.g., 8), add an ipfw rule that blocks all traffic from the offending IP#. Of course, this has got to be automatized (script?). I find security/sshit works wel

Re: Party

2006-09-28 Thread Jan Grant
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Josh Paetzel wrote: > The only viable solution to the problem of spam that I can see (and > I'm positive that it would never happen) is an international agency > tasked to track down and punish the people responsible for spam. > They'd have to have the power to go after th

Re: Party

2006-09-28 Thread Robert C Wittig
Josh Paetzel wrote: I could probably dodge a lot of it by running ssh on an alternate port, but then I'd have to find something besides reading the logs to amuse myself with. ...more amusing than reading logs? Impossible! The only viable solution to the problem of spam that I can see (and I'

Re: Party

2006-09-28 Thread Thierry Thomas
Le Jeu 28 sep 06 à 16:19:42 +0200, John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrivait : > ports/security/bruteblock (there's another one for pf, this one is for ipfw) No need for an external tool with pf. Just add this kind of rule: table persist block in quick from pass in quick on $ext_if inet proto

Re: Party

2006-09-28 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday 27 September 2006 22:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > garbage, in my inbox. It seems after every ssh-bruteforce wave, > > there's a spike in spam distribution. So the problem just keeps > > showing up. To me, it seems like there's hordes of vandals running > > about torching t

Re: Party

2006-09-28 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Thursday 28 September 2006 02:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > garbage, in my inbox. It seems after every ssh-bruteforce wave, > > there's a spike in spam distribution. So the problem just keeps > > showing up. To me, it seems like there's hordes of vandals > > running about torching the town