Subj : Crazy BBS connections
To   : Sam Alexander
From : Denn
Date : Tue Mar 22 2022 00:04:19

  Re: Crazy BBS connections
  By: Sam Alexander to All on Mon Mar 21 2022 12:33 pm

 SA> I'm finally in a place where I can setup a new board -- probably will just
 SA> be for my own benefit and the fun of doing it. I'm quite surprised at the
 SA> barrage of connections I started getting right out of the gate! I'm
 SA> getting telnet and ssh connections almost constantly, about 3-5 a minute
 SA> if not more. Trying randon usernames and such. I guess this is normal
 SA> now'days? I'm running sync at home over my broadband connection, so I
 SA> guess it's people just scanning ports and ip's. 

 I have my router take care of DOS and DDOS, and I only open ports I actually
use on my BBS computer, I also block ip's that try the password guess game and
I have a jibberish text file that is sent to them each time they try to spam
me.

.... BBSing: a method to triple your phone bill.

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