[tor-relays] SSH brute force attempts to connect to my Middle Relay IP address

[Thomas Dünser]

Hi,

could it help to use ||iptables to limit to 3 attempts per minute, or to
use Fail2ban?

Regards

Tom


On 10/04/2017 01:07 PM, Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen wrote:
> On 4 October 2017 at 08:41, Fr33d0m4all <fr33d0m4all at riseup.net
> <mailto:fr33d0m4all at riseup.net>> wrote:
> >
> > I know, I know about how internet works :) I’ve just simply noted a
> large increase in SSH brute force attempts in the last two weeks. BTW
> I don’t have root login enabled and I have two factor authentication
> on my SSH port (not standard),
>
>
> I also gets a lot of ssh bruce force attempts but then I drink some
> hot chokolade and all
> my worries goes away :-)
> However I am running on ssh on port 22 so I do expect a lot of bruce
> force attempts.
>
> I do find it a bit strange if you are running ssh on another port and
> still gets
> many bruce force attempts.
>
> Just curious: how many bruce force attempts per day approx? a few
> thousands?
>
> Regards
> Martin
>
>
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