openssh concerns

Lyndon Nerenberg - VE6BBM/VE7TFX lyndon at orthanc.ca
Mon Oct 5 18:03:51 UTC 2009


> Personally I tend to either firewall the OpenSSH daemon, or leave it  
> wide open. I don't really see the point in changing ports, as long as  
> they are still publicly available.

The ssh bots only seem to probe port 22.  In well over a year of
running my ssh servers on a different (very low numbered) port I
haven't logged a single probe (across about a dozen highly visible
servers).

--lyndon



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