Onpening and Closing ports

[Peter N. M. Hansteen]

Dave Carrera <dave at ephgroup.com> writes:

> Had a little nasty person trying to break my sshd on port 22.

You can head them off rather easily with a short PF rule set, see
eg http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/bruteforce.html.  

They can actually be fun to watch :)

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Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
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