illegal user root user failed login attempts

[Ed Stover]

Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
> Ed Stover wrote:
> 
>> One of my personal favorite things to do is:
>> move ssh to port 1001
>>  
>>
> Is there a reason behind choosing port 1001?  <1024; not registered to
> anything else useful; reasonably memorable?
Well as long as you dont have a service allready running on what ever
the port number is. Sure choose a number that you feel is a nice one.

>  Are there any other useful
> criteria I've missed?
> 
Not that I can think of. Let me know if you need any thing else.
> Thanks,
> 
> --Alex