[Lvlug] Re: Finally, someone's trying to hack in. :-)

[Faber Fedor]

On 21/12/05 10:00 -0500, Linc Fessenden wrote:
> Mark wrote:
> >I've been waiting for this day so I suppose I should have been better 
> >prepared however I am *currently* under attack and someone is running a 
> >brute for dictionary attack against my sshd.
> >
> >What should I do? ;-)
> >
> >-Mark
> 
> Take a nap..  That is unless you have easily guessable passwords. 

I recently ran into a problem where I had too many people trying to
crack into my box the same way as they're trying with Mark's box.  What
ended up happening is the iptables ip_conntrack table got full and slowed
everything WAY DOWN.

If he's not running iptables, taking a nap is a good idea.


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