On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Sorin Srbu<sorin.srbu at orgfarm.uu.se> wrote: >>-----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 You can imagine I'd not banned CN if i knew I had legit users there. So far no complaints from my clients.. and besides, I only blocked ssh and ftp ports.. The chinese can still send me mail and browse my websites. ..Thinking if i should ban them from pop3 and imap as well. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >