George Theall on 26 Apr 2005 19:30:24 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Increase in SSH break-in attempts? 

On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 10:39:52AM -0400, Paul L. Snyder wrote:

> I've been meaning to play around with port knocking.  Any thoughts
> from folks who've experimented with it or are using it now?

I set up portknocking for ssh last summer; can't say as I've been
bothered by this particular problem for months.  :-)

I'm using my own Perl script for this - log-guardian,
<http://www.tifaware.com/perl/log-guardian/>.  It handles portknocking
as well as blocking pesky spammers / kiddies. 

George
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theall@tifaware.com

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