-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: | Hi All, | | Before I start coding my own plugin to do this, does anyone know of a | plugin that monitors the number of external connection attempts over a | given period of time for a given service and sends alerts accordingly? | | I've noticed on a number of servers that we maintain recently that | there are unauthorised attempts to connect via SSH/FTP. These appear | in the log files about 2 seconds apart and are obviously automated.
They are in fact rooted machines running a bot doing the work. these are around for years and apparantly people still think that they can put up unpatched servers on the internet. But unless you will report the server to th owner of the network or anything like that I think it will be just adrain of resources without any benefit. Hugo. - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hugo.vanderkooij.org/ PGP/GPG? Use: http://hugo.vanderkooij.org/0x58F19981.asc A: Yes. >Q: Are you sure? >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? Bored? Click on http://spamornot.org/ and rate those images. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHzxjfBvzDRVjxmYERApWLAJ0T+XRDxY0QzwX3Gb9hJms8aCs3GACdF/dY E0w7IE9UPrEFuW0VXcW1Dlg= =41iP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
