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Re: ssh doesn't work.



On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 22:46:16 +0200
Antti Talsta <atalsta@nothingtosee.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 11:28:53PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> 
> > How fail2ban can help against an army of bots trying one single
> > password per bot?
> 
> It doesn't.

My point exactly. Using sshd on non-standard port does, as bots are too
stupid to try anything other than tcp:22 on ipv4 for ssh brute-force.

Does not invalidate other virtues of using fail2ban though.

Reco


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