On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, johnea wrote: > Garrett Wollman wrote: [..] > > > tcp4 0 0 atom.60448 host154.advance.com.ar.auth > > > TIME_WAIT > > > > "auth" is the port number used by the IDENT protocol. > > > > -GAWollman > > Thank You to everyone who responded! > > In fact I did discover these lines in hosts.allow: > > 31-# Protect against simple DNS spoofing attacks by checking that the > 32-# forward and reverse records for the remote host match. If a mismatch > 33-# occurs, access is denied, and any positive ident response within > 34-# 20 seconds is logged. No protection is afforded against DNS poisoning, > 35-# IP spoofing or more complicated attacks. Hosts with no reverse DNS > 36-# pass this rule. > 37:ALL : PARANOID : RFC931 20 : deny > > This is what was generating the auth protocol socket. > > I've disabled it to prevent the establishment of the auth socket to hosts > who are attempting to breakin. > > Per another suggestion I also intend to change the port for ssh to a > non-standard number (after synchronizing with the users of course 8-)
This will provide the greatest relief against drive-by ssh probes, which are pretty much background radiation these days. Some may decry it as 'security by obscurity', but who cares when it works so effectively :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TCP_and_UDP_port_numbers provides a reasonably useful list of ports NOT to choose for an obscure ssh port. cheers, Ian _______________________________________________ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
