> Last night I was using my laptop ssh-ed into my new home server. I was > setting up NFS, and needed to restart the networking stuff on the > server. Hey! why did my ssh session suddenly freeze?
Strange, I am routinely logged into some box via ssh and do a rcnetwork restart. I've never had a problem, other than of course when I stuffed up the networking and the network interface doesn't come up again... > On a side note, port 22 of the server, which is open to the internet > through the firewall, had nearly 5000 breakin attempts last night. > After less than 2 days open. I'm using the default ssh-server install. > I hope it's secure enough. Should be fine, assuming you keep sshd very up-to-date, disable ssh 1 protocol, and have good passwords on all accounts. Configure sshd to not allow logins on accounts for which you don't need it. In fact, make a positive list. Running sshd on a port other than 22 doesn't increase security, but cuts the zombie traffic. You can use the firewall to do this - forward external:someport to internalserver:22. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
