More SSH 'trolling'

Lew Bloch conrad at lewscanon.com
Thu Oct 14 19:15:03 UTC 2004


From: Alexander Dalloz
> If the IPs are dynamically assigned, such an attempt is
> pointless. What you can do is to use portknocking. This has been
> suggested and discussed controversial recently here on the list.

Controversial is correct.  From what I've read, portknocking is useless, 
worse than useless, really, since it induces an entirely unjustified 
sense of security.  I will never use it.




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