Subj : IPv6 here?
To   : Bj”rn Felten
From : David Drummond
Date : Fri Apr 22 2016 05:43:16

On 22/04/2016 2:45 AM, 2:203/2 wrote:
 KE>>>  The only connects I get are from script kiddies using port knocking
 KE>>> software.

 AL>> I think most of us get our share of those.

 BF>     LOL! Tell me about it. More than half of the incoming connections
 BF> here are from #23 script kiddies. For a few months I even disabled #23
 BF> here, but then again, that meant that I could no longer accept telnet
 BF> calls to my BBS so now it's enabled again.

 BF>     If only I could understand what those #23 calls are supposed to
 BF> accomplish...

From my logs it looks as though they think that they'll log in as root (after guessing the password). Don't they know that root login via telnet/ssh is disabled by default even in the older Linuxes.

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Regards
David

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