From: "Les Mikesell" <lesmikesell(a)gmail.com>
Tom Rivers wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 13:16 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
>> Such programs help you save the CPU time of sshd answering the
>> connection from a single abusive host, but would do little against a
>> distributed botnet attack. Luckily botnets aren't really used against
>> sshd yet, but it they were you'd potentially be seeing distributed
>> guessing attacks from 10,000 different hosts. If they all took turns
>> to guess a single password in round-robin fashion, the filters would
>> never trip.
>
> You're right. What do you recommend to protect against this sort of
> attack?
>
Don't make a lot of enemies???
More like, "don't look like a very juicy target."
A tarpit machine with a redirection based on recent might be a really
fun trick if you want some entertainment.
{^_-}