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Date:      Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:33:37 -0600
From:      Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Cc:        John <john@starfire.mn.org>, Anton <anton@sng.by>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Programmer In Training <pit@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us>, "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Subject:   Re: Thousands of ssh probes
Message-ID:  <4B913261.10801@daleco.biz>
In-Reply-To: <4B912F93.7010102@infracaninophile.co.uk>
References:  <20100305125446.GA14774@elwood.starfire.mn.org>	<4B910139.1080908@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us>	<20100305132604.GC14774@elwood.starfire.mn.org>	<1108389354.20100305154152@sng.by>	<861vfy6add.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>	<20100305154654.GB17456@elwood.starfire.mn.org>	<86sk8e4vhj.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>	<4B912C41.8090505@infracaninophile.co.uk>	<86ocj24ujo.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <4B912F93.7010102@infracaninophile.co.uk>

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Matthew Seaman wrote:
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> On 05/03/2010 16:12:11, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>>>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> writes:
>> Matthew> On 05/03/2010 15:51:52, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>>>> The spamtrap is a shiny object for spam, and anything that goes there gets
>>>> blocked for an hour from hitting the low port.  I presented this at a
>>>> conference once.
>> Matthew> Having an IPv6-only high-mx seems to terminally confuse most spambots...
>>
>> Oooh!  And arpnetworks gives me a /48 in 6 for free. I could have thousands of
>> them. :)
> 
> Thousands?  Try billions.  Sagans and sagans.  More than the maximum
> possible number of hosts on the IPv4 internet. Muha ha Ha!!!!!

I'd think we might have to increase the size of the container
for /etc/rc.conf to do that, though?  At any rate, that'd be
a lot of "ifconfig" to read/edit/etc.

KDK



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