-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2009-10-06 at 08:30 +0200, Joop Beris wrote:
On Monday 05 October 2009 20:46:53 John Andersen wrote:
You've misinterpreted the entire thread. Slow distributed ssh attacks go right thru Fail2ban, because they don't hit you from the same address and they don't hit you in quick succession.
You're right. Somehow I missed the "distributed" in the subject. I'm sorry, I retract my comment. Obviously if the attacks are distributed, fail2ban, denyhosts etc., will not work.
I think there was a comment today on this attack on slashdot, with a link to some interseting explanation. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkrLxNkACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UHSQCfdkmwvT1BylbIha1jPzaIspgu PI4An1Iu00JjyGjsElgoe8Oj3/cfHm2U =O261 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org