Okay - thanks.
> The new FTP server was in response to the constant barrages of bots trying > to break into the server via insecure known FTP exploits. Not that they > could have done any damage since everything from the public site is > read-only, it was quite annoying. Sometimes we'd see 20-30,000 failed logins > a day with all sorts of dictionary attacks. Now, if any IP fails logging in > 5 times it's banned. I've grown accustomed to just ignoring failed logins - if you're on the internet, expect them at the rate of about 1E42 every second. :) -Josh
