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Date:      Wed, 12 May 2004 09:41:06 +0200
From:      Patrick Proniewski <patpro@patpro.net>
To:        Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: rate limiting sshd connections ?
Message-ID:  <BA7B6705-A3E7-11D8-BA1C-0030654D97EC@patpro.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040512040819.024F92C6A0@mx5.roble.com>
References:  <20040511190058.A8FC516A4DB@hub.freebsd.org> <20040511202707.C40492C6A0@mx5.roble.com> <F7B884F8-A38A-11D8-AAAF-0030654D97EC@patpro.net> <20040512040819.024F92C6A0@mx5.roble.com>

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On 12 mai 2004, at 06:08, Roger Marquis wrote:

>> in fact, I've seen an Apple XServe (two G4 1GHz processors) running
>> MacOS X Server beeing DOSed by a remote Nagios probe testing it's
>> sshd once per minute.
>
> Once per minute?  That's extremely unusual.  Do you mean once per
> second?

yes, once per minute, but the box is pretty loaded on the apache front


>> On OSX, sshd runs from xinetd.
>
> Sounds like a configuration issue.

like many things on OSXS (for example bind running as root and not 
chrooted...)


patpro
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