Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:12:14 -0700
From:      merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To:        Paul Macdonald <paul@ifdnrg.com>
Cc:        James Strother <jstrother9109@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: limit number of ssh connections
Message-ID:  <86fwjst6ld.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <4E77A37A.3090406@ifdnrg.com> (Paul Macdonald's message of "Mon,  19 Sep 2011 21:18:02 %2B0100")
References:  <CAAOvGP2Gj0=ZAYZn2KZYUa3NTCHVtUdtQqHumM1D5Ea26dzPrQ@mail.gmail.com> <946851316461449@web97.yandex.ru> <CAAOvGP3uPgcA2L%2B3%2BaLuAkyy3m72L3fxeDbt67gF1iC2xPMitQ@mail.gmail.com> <4E77A37A.3090406@ifdnrg.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Macdonald <paul@ifdnrg.com> writes:

Paul> in my experience running ssh on a high port cuts the amount of unwanted ssh
Paul> connections to approximately zero, in fact i got a surprise when seeing a sec
Paul> log from a box which i hadn't done this for

I run sshd on 443 (for firewall-bending reasons), and the only
connections I see there are people trying to break into the web.  Never
an actual sshd hit. :)

-- 
Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095
<merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/>;
Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc.
See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?86fwjst6ld.fsf>