Anti-brute force to those using firewalld?

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Thu Mar 6 16:58:25 UTC 2014


On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 11:31:50 -0500,
   David Mehler <dave.mehler at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Thank you. I'm referring to ssh and or smtp bot probes of a system.
>I'd like to block these out.

Why? (Network performance, security, something else?)

The suggestions I gave should be fine to mitigate the security issues 
with people guessing passwords to try to gain ssh access. (Assuming 
you can enforce them. That might not work so well if there are other 
people than you using the system.)


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