Jeffrey Means <meaje at meanspc.com> wrote: > One other method I have sucessfully used / am using is to > change the port number of the service being attacked. If > we are talking about ssh this can be done in the > /etc/ssh/sshd_config file by changing / adding a Port > xxxx line to the file. > I hope this helps you it has drastically decreased the > number of people trying to break down my front door. Instead of rehashing my set of SSH recommendations on yet another list, I've added blog entry: http://thebs413.blogspot.com/2005/08/secure-shell-ssh-service-dos.html -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)