Subj : Re: SSH...
To   : Bucko
From : Charles Blackburn
Date : Sun Oct 09 2022 08:48 am

  Re: Re: SSH...
  By: Bucko to Charles Blackburn on Sun Oct 09 2022 08:35:14

 Bu> On 09 Oct 2022, Charles Blackburn said the following...


 CB>> that's the funy thing, you don't need to block a ton of places. that's
 CB>> all i drop specifically. i would just try starting with 
 CB>> the "usual suspects" then add to that if you need to. you would be surprised how much crap comes out of just this lot.
 CB>> $IPT -A INPUT -m geoip -p tcp --dport 23 --src-cc RU,CN,IN,KR,KP,TW,BO,JP,BR,IT,PK,LV,TR -j DROP

 Bu> I see a few in there I don't have blocked I am gonna block them. I know what you mean about fail2ban, I have tried to set
 Bu> that up numerous times and I fail each time.. LOL pun on words there..

yea those are the ones that got the most traffic. was funny to see a linux box getting attacked by a microsoft owned ip address lol on a couple of occasions LOL


 CB>> yea that was pretty much the issue i had.. of course, i just increased
 CB>> the number of nodes and they just followed. I could use fail2ban, but that's always been a pain in the arse for me to
 CB>> setup. this way, if anything gets through I just manually go in and add an iptables line for that subnet.

 Bu> I run my Amiga board in Windows (For now at least). UAE sucks in Linux, trying to work something out on a testbed i am
 Bu> playing with.. I like the iptables routine and will do that on my Linux systems..

interesting. have you tried even trying to run it on one of those FPGA amigas? I personally feel that if you're going to run amiga software for something like this, run it on real hardware... there's more fun in that - and brownie points lol

 CB>> would that be like precome? where you get off before you actually get
 CB>> off ? LOL
 Bu> Jeez.. No comment! LOL

:D
 Bu> ... Do device drivers need a chauffeur's license?

no but sometimes they do need to terminate and stay resident :D

regards

Charles Blackburn
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