On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 17:24 +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Sunday 07 March 2010 03:35:43 pm nate wrote: > > The > > servers I manage for my employer receive roughly 2 billion web hits > > per day. > > 2 billion per day? That's 20 000 hits per second, on average. How many servers > do you actually have behind load-balancers to deal with this kind of activity? > And also, what are you maintaining? Google? > --- And does your ssh machines get hammered? I see that daily on some of my clients. The longest attack yet I have seen in the log files was 37 hours straight. All use key auth also though. These do not have such as fail2ban or iptables limiting. I have always seen those types of schemes to be hindering security. Thus adding in more problems. I will admit the machine that was attacked for 37 hours was a CentOS 5.2 OS. So someone at OSCent is doing something right or I was. John