Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 13:51:07 +0100 From: peter@bsdly.net (Peter N. M. Hansteen) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please Help! How to STOP them... Message-ID: <87mz4nw0n8.fsf@thingy.datadok.no> In-Reply-To: <45A81F60.70401@chapman.edu> (Jay Chandler's message of "Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:53:04 -0800") References: <45A81F60.70401@chapman.edu>
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Jay Chandler <chandler@chapman.edu> writes: > Please, please, PLEASE RTFM. If that's too much to ask, try taking a > class, hiring a consultant, or using a more user-friendly OS. FreeBSD *is* user friendly. The simple (and fun to watch!) solution involves using PF (not sure if this can be easily done with the other firewalls FreeBSD has on tap) with 'overload' rules, ie http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/bruteforce.html -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
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