Subj : Re: SSH...
To   : Charles Blackburn
From : Bucko
Date : Sun Oct 09 2022 08:35 am

On 09 Oct 2022, Charles Blackburn said the following...
 
 CB> 
 CB> that's the funy thing, you don't need to block a ton of places. that's
 CB> all i drop specifically. i would just try starting with 
 CB> the "usual suspects" then add to that if you need to. you would be
 CB> surprised how much crap comes out of just this lot.
 CB> 
 CB> $IPT -A INPUT -m geoip -p tcp --dport 23 --src-cc
 CB> RU,CN,IN,KR,KP,TW,BO,JP,BR,IT,PK,LV,TR -j DROP
 CB> 

I see a few in there I don't have blocked I am gonna block them. I know what you mean about fail2ban, I have tried to set that up numerous times and I fail each time.. LOL pun on words there..

 CB> 
 CB> yea that was pretty much the issue i had.. of course, i just increased
 CB> the number of nodes and they just followed. I could use fail2ban, but
 CB> that's always been a pain in the arse for me to setup. this way, if
 CB> anything gets through I just manually go in and add an iptables line for
 CB> that subnet.
 CB> 

I run my Amiga board in Windows (For now at least). UAE sucks in Linux, trying to work something out on a testbed i am playing with.. I like the iptables routine and will do that on my Linux systems..

 CB> 
 CB> would that be like precome? where you get off before you actually get
 CB> off ? LOL
 CB> 

Jeez.. No comment! LOL

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