[CentOS] SSH attacks from china

Sat Jul 25 17:40:28 UTC 2009
Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu at orgfarm.uu.se>

>-----Original Message-----
>From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
>Behalf Of Lucian at lastdot.org
>Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 1:09 PM
>To: CentOS mailing list
>Subject: Re: [CentOS] SSH attacks from china
>
>I banned all China and Korea in my gateway :) (not for all ports, only
>for ssh & ftp).

That's the simple solution, and one that has been argued (on the 'net
generally) to be a very blunt tool at that. 

What if you have legit users from China and Korea trying to connect to your
server(s)?
-- 
/Sorin
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