<div dir="ltr">What you can try doing is putting some services on a non standered port (like SSH on port 4583) This will stop most (not all) attacks coming in at port 22.<br><br>James<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:21 PM, James B. Byrne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca">byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On: Thu, 14 May 2009 13:00:09 -0700, Scott Silva<br>
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> <a href="http://packages.sw.be/fail2ban/" target="_blank">http://packages.sw.be/fail2ban/</a><br>
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</div>Thank you, got it.<br>
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In the meantime I revised my existing iptables rules to throttle<br>
connections to ssh, pop3, imap and ftp (which service is not running<br>
in any case).<br>
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Thanks for all the help from everybody.<br>
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