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Date:      Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:03:53 -0600
From:      Programmer In Training <pit@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Thousands of ssh probes
Message-ID:  <4B910139.1080908@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us>
In-Reply-To: <20100305125446.GA14774@elwood.starfire.mn.org>
References:  <20100305125446.GA14774@elwood.starfire.mn.org>

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On 03/05/10 06:54, John wrote:
> 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?

Can you not deny all ssh attempts and then allow only from certain,
trusted IPs?

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