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Re: SSH brute force blocking tool
From: "Brian Eaton" <eaton.lists () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:38:10 -0500
On 11/28/06, Thierry Zoller <Thierry () zoller lu> wrote:
TO> J, you have made an attempt to fix it, but is is not sufficient. TO> An attacker can still add arbitrary hosts to the deny list. Can you propose a fix ? Apart from the aggressivness of this thread I find it interesting to read (from a tech standpoint).
Unlike Tavis, I haven't had the guts to actually install and test this little contraption. But it looks like setting the sshd config option "UseDNS no" might help. Then sshd will log the client IP instead of the client hostname, and you no longer need to rely on the attacker's DNS to tell you which IP to blacklist. Someone could still purposefully trigger a ban of an IP address they controlled, but I don't think they could do arbitrary IPs any longer. Regards, Brian
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- Re: SSH brute force blocking tool, (continued)
- Re: SSH brute force blocking tool Brian Eaton (Nov 27)
- Re: SSH brute force blocking tool Thierry Zoller (Nov 28)
- Re: SSH brute force blocking tool J. Oquendo (Nov 28)
- Re: SSH brute force blocking tool Tavis Ormandy (Nov 28)
- Re: SSH brute force blocking tool J. Oquendo (Nov 28)
- Re: SSH brute force blocking tool Tavis Ormandy (Nov 28)
- Re: SSH brute force blocking tool J. Oquendo (Nov 28)
- Re: SSH brute force blocking tool Thierry Zoller (Nov 28)
- Re: SSH brute force blocking tool Tavis Ormandy (Nov 28)
- Re: SSH brute force blocking tool Brian Eaton (Nov 28)
- Re: SSH brute force blocking tool Brian Eaton (Nov 28)
- Re: SSH brute force blocking tool Tavis Ormandy (Nov 28)
- Re: SSH brute force blocking tool J. Oquendo (Nov 28)
- Re: SSH brute force blocking tool Tavis Ormandy (Nov 28)
- Re: SSH brute force blocking tool Anders B Jansson (Nov 28)
- Re: SSH brute force blocking tool J. Oquendo (Nov 28)
- Re: SSH brute force blocking tool Thierry Zoller (Nov 28)
- Re: SSH brute force blocking tool Tonnerre Lombard (Nov 30)