annoying brute force attack attempt using ssh

Scott van Looy scott at ethosuk.net
Thu May 15 11:33:53 UTC 2008


Today Bill Crawford did spake thusly:

> 2008/5/15 Scott van Looy <scott at ethosuk.net>:
>
>>> You appended the rule, AFTER the ones which allow ssh through?
>
>> That should work though IIRC...I'm stopping a specific IP from connecting
>
> If you've already allowed it, that rule is too late to stop it. One of
> the other replies pointed out a better way (use -I instead of -A).

Yeah, sorry. Long day - I should've noticed that ;)

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