break-in attempts on my server

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 05:15:35PM -0500, David Kramer wrote:
> Is there *anything* else I can do?  There's hundreds of these attempts.

If you have good passwords, they won't get in.  I get tons of attempts
most days and I don't worry about them.

If you want to slow them down I have seen suggestions to have your
iptables automatically blackhole the IP address of anyone who tries
too many times to login and fails.  The blackhole expires after a time
so you don't collect a bunch of dynamic IP addresses that are later
innocent.

I haven't tried it myself, but take a look at one example
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-May/msg01323.html

Let us know how it turns out.


-kb