Re: ssh doesn't work.
On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 11:28:53PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 21:14:51 +0200
> Antti Talsta <atalsta@nothingtosee.org> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 01:49:34PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> >
> > > Changing the port at least decreases the number of brute force attacks
> > > against you, which saves resources (bandwidth, CPU) that are otherwise
> > > wasted by the attackers.
> >
> > How about fail2ban for that?
>
> How fail2ban can help against an army of bots trying one single
> password per bot?
>
That actually works well. Usually it's multiple attempts from one ip.
fail2ban catches exactly that. And then blacklists that ip.
-H
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