SSH2

[Chris W. Parker]

David Tonhofer, m-plify S.A. <mailto:d.tonhofer at m-plify.com>
    on Tuesday, April 05, 2005 1:37 PM said:

> I don't think so, I have a few thousand attempts with various vanilla
> users each day on each machine. Tiresome. I think SSH should tarpit
> the connections, I have already an itch to fix the source....

So this happens to everyone huh? That's good to know.

So then as long as software is up to date and strong passwords are used,
I guess there's not much to worry about then?

I wonder why though the firewall (iptables) doesn't automatically block
ip addresses after say 20 failed attempts? Is this possible?



Chris.