Odd ssh attacks?

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Thu Jul 19 15:30:02 UTC 2007


Art Edwards wrote:

> Two other things you can do (I'm doing these,FWIW)
> 
> 1. For each IP address you encounter, you can set up a stanza in you
> iptables firewall.
> 
> For example,
> $IPTABLES -I INPUT -s 203.127.160.155 -j DROP

Note, that this is OK for a home user, probably not a good idea for the
Corporate webserver, as you are banning everybody who will ever use the
same IP address (think dial up users, and folks behind NATed firewalls).

-- 
derek





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