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Date:      Fri, 5 Mar 2010 08:12:52 -0500
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        John <john@starfire.mn.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Thousands of ssh probes
Message-ID:  <19345.852.647315.197426@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100305125446.GA14774@elwood.starfire.mn.org>
References:  <20100305125446.GA14774@elwood.starfire.mn.org>

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John writes:

>  My nightly security logs have thousands upon thousands of ssh
>  probes in them.  One day, over 6500.  This is enough that I can
>  actually "feel" it in my network performance.  Other than
>  changing ssh to a non-standard port - is there a way to deal with
>  these?  Every day, they originate from several different IP
>  addresses, so I can't just put in a static firewall rule.  Is
>  there a way to get ssh to quit responding to a port or a way to
>  generate a dynamic pf rule in cases like this?

	There are several solutions in the ports system; I use
security/denyhosts.


				Robert Huff






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