[Gllug] limiting ssh zombie login attempts

[Martin A. Brooks]

On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 14:04, Andre Newman wrote:
> > Using iptables' 'limit' match to limit SSH connections to two every 5
> > minutes should work reasonably well - it'd take a very long time to try
> 
> I'm using
> -m state --state NEW  -m limit --limit 5/min --limit-burst 2 -j ACCEPT

That look like a very effective method of being locked out of your own
server :)

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Martin A. Brooks <martin at clues.ltd.uk>
Clues Ltd

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