Subj : Re: Crazy BBS connections
To   : Digital Man
From : dragon
Date : Sun Apr 03 2022 22:10:50

On 4/3/2022 6:02 PM, Digital Man wrote:
>    Re: Re: Crazy BBS connections
>    By: Andre to dragon on Sun Apr 03 2022 07:44 am
> 
>   > > I've been managing and securing IP networks for nearly 30 years.
>   >
>   > As they say, there's always a bigger fish.
>   >
>   > The concept of moving to nonstandard ports is dated and not useful anymore.
>   > It accomplishes nothing other than making it more difficult for users to
>   > connect. For all the people that say otherwise, I'll wait to see all of the
>   > examples
>   > of exploited BBS systems that were using 22/23.
> 
> I think the reason that some sysops use non-standard ports is to cut down on  bots busying their nodes (attempting logins or just waiting to timeout) and possibly denying service to legit users.

That's actually what the original poster seemed to be asking about and 
what I thought I was providing an OPTION for him to deal with it.

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