[CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

Tue Mar 8 20:01:02 UTC 2011
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

On 03/08/11 11:47 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>
> Yup. Last time I saw a story about someone hanging an unprotected Windows
> box on the 'Net, late last year, I think, it was down from 12 min to 5 min
> before it was attacked.

and how long after you connect a 'nix box before worms start port 
knocking on ssh trying stupid combinations of user/pass over and over?   
I see a couple 1000 of those a day

Mar  8 11:41:25 freescruz sshd[28012]: Failed password for daemon from 
200.201.20.21 port 49462 ssh2
Mar  8 11:41:29 freescruz sshd[28026]: Failed password for adm from 
200.201.20.21 port 49869 ssh2
Mar  8 11:41:32 freescruz sshd[28038]: Failed password for invalid user 
quark from 200.201.20.21 port 50352 ssh2
Mar  8 11:41:36 freescruz sshd[28048]: Failed password for invalid user 
sys from 200.201.20.21 port 50811 ssh2
Mar  8 11:41:40 freescruz sshd[28055]: Failed password for invalid user 
liyiduo from 200.201.20.21 port 50984 ssh2
Mar  8 11:41:44 freescruz sshd[28061]: Failed password for games from 
200.201.20.21 port 51438 ssh2
Mar  8 11:41:47 freescruz sshd[28071]: Failed password for mailnull from 
200.201.20.21 port 51927 ssh2
Mar  8 11:41:52 freescruz sshd[28086]: Failed password for invalid user 
backup from 200.201.20.21 port 52095 ssh2
Mar  8 11:41:55 freescruz sshd[28094]: Failed password for sync from 
200.201.20.21 port 52604 ssh2
Mar  8 11:41:59 freescruz sshd[28103]: Failed password for shutdown from 
200.201.20.21 port 53016 ssh2
Mar  8 11:42:03 freescruz sshd[28112]: Failed password for invalid user 
libuuid from 200.201.20.21 port 53504 ssh2
Mar  8 11:42:07 freescruz sshd[28145]: Failed password for invalid user 
liudongfeng from 200.201.20.21 port 53999 ssh2
Mar  8 11:42:10 freescruz sshd[28150]: Failed password for invalid user 
aaa from 200.201.20.21 port 54177 ssh2
Mar  8 11:42:14 freescruz sshd[28160]: Failed password for invalid user 
puxiaolong from 200.201.20.21 port 54585 ssh2
Mar  8 11:42:18 freescruz sshd[28167]: Failed password for invalid user 
yuzhakov from 200.201.20.21 port 55084 ssh2
Mar  8 11:42:22 freescruz sshd[28175]: Failed password for invalid user 
Debian-exim from 200.201.20.21 port 55590 ssh2
Mar  8 11:42:25 freescruz sshd[28183]: Failed password for invalid user 
irc from 200.201.20.21 port 55788 ssh2
Mar  8 11:42:29 freescruz sshd[28190]: Failed password for invalid user 
home3 from 200.201.20.21 port 56182 ssh2
Mar  8 11:42:33 freescruz sshd[28194]: Failed password for invalid user 
messagebus from 200.201.20.21 port 32824 ssh2
Mar  8 11:42:37 freescruz sshd[28203]: Failed password for invalid user 
netdump from 200.201.20.21 port 33315 ssh2