Yep me too, but I did set up a firewall on the BBS that blocks the 'bad countries' that most of the attacks come from.. port 23 open is way too exciting to the morons..
Greg On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 10:22 AM, Josh Malone <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
