Re: limiting ssh login attempts by ip

2004-12-01 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
csnyder wrote: I've noticed a marked increase in dictionary attacks against sshd lately -- tens or even hundreds of connection attempts from the same IP address within a short timespan. I wrote a script that creates firewall rules to drop packets from IPs with more than n login failures over the la

Re: limiting ssh login attempts by ip

2004-12-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
csnyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've noticed a marked increase in dictionary attacks against sshd > lately -- tens or even hundreds of connection attempts from the same > IP address within a short timespan. That's not enough attempts to qualify as a dictionary attack. Based on what I've se

limiting ssh login attempts by ip

2004-11-30 Thread csnyder
I've noticed a marked increase in dictionary attacks against sshd lately -- tens or even hundreds of connection attempts from the same IP address within a short timespan. I wrote a script that creates firewall rules to drop packets from IPs with more than n login failures over the last 10 minutes,