Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: Luke-Jr <luke-jr@×××××××.org>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Locking out SSH brute-force attacks
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 04:20:53
Message-Id: 200510080423.29358.luke-jr@utopios.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] Locking out SSH brute-force attacks by Mark Rudholm
1 On Thursday 06 October 2005 00:15, Mark Rudholm wrote:
2 > route add bad.person.or.network 127.0.0.1 (or otherwise bogus destination)
3 > is an effective emergency block.
4
5 Just a small note: I've found that using iptables to drop the packets affects
6 latency quite a bit ;)
7
8 --
9 Luke-Jr
10 Developer, Utopios
11 http://utopios.org/

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