Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:17:38 -0800 From: "Leo L. Schwab" <ewhac@best.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong? Message-ID: <20061114091737.GA3207@best.com> In-Reply-To: <455836A2.6010004@gmx.net> References: <20061113060528.GA7646@best.com> <455836A2.6010004@gmx.net>
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On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:10:58AM +0100, Frank Staals wrote: > I had the same 'problem'. As said it's not realy a problem since FreeBSD > will hold just fine if you don't have any rather stupid user + pass > combinations. While FreeBSD and OpenSSH are very good, I'm not prepared to rely solely on that. I'd also prefer that the script kiddies not consume my gaming bandwidth by trying to crack my box, so best to just block them at the firewall and make them go somewhere else. Schwab
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