I think port knocking would be cool to use to help avoid this - anyone know of any links on how to set this up?
On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 13:21:17 -0600, Justin Findlay - [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 09:03:06PM -0400, Glen Wagley wrote: > > This must be a new record for me. Two posts in under 10 minutes. I'm sick of > > getting portscanned. I have my firewall forwarding ports 80, 110, 143, 22, and > > 25 to my server. Other than that, it's shutdown. However, someone (69.72.229.26) > > insists on scanning and then trying to crack the server. I have an sshd log full > > of this character tryin to crack using a gazillion user/pass combos. There > > hasn't been a successful login from this IP yet but it is truly annoying. Is > > there anything that yall do or would suggest doing when you realize someone is > > trying to break into your box? > > Maybe you could talk to Senator Hatch about that. I seem to remember some time ago > he had this idea that you could blow up someone's computer remotely if they do > anything illegal, or in this case, annoying. > > > Justin > > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > -- :wq spig ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
