From: Whit Blauvelt <whit at transpect.com> > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 07:12:59PM -0400, Bob Hoffman wrote: > > I have a server sitting right on the net and the constant barrage of 100s of > > Ips trying thousands of times at port 22 is insane. > You're quite sane. Anyone likely to hit your ssh at its new port is likely > to try port 22 first. So if they show up there first, blocking them is good > - unless you have legitimate users who may forget to go to your special port > and so get locked out after trying the default port first. There's also port knocking... JD