On 4/10/06, John Hinton <webmaster at ew3d.com> wrote: > > Seems the script kiddies are now hitting vsftp with dictionary attacks. > I had three boxes showing around 12000 attempts from one IP yesterday. > > My thoughts are that there should be an upstream solution for this which > is then supported by the upstream vendor. Yes, I know there are several > 'other' solutions, but I'd really like to stay mainstream and use a > supported method for dealing with these issues. I can't help but view > them as security issues. > > hey, You can set max_clients and max_per_ip that means only these no.of clients(max_clients) can connect at a time and only these no. of sessions per ipaddress(max_per_ip). This may help in reducing the no.of attacks. Regards Ankush Grover -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060410/e07a6c23/attachment-0004.html>