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Unrelated IP addresses

Unrelated IP addresses

Posted Oct 26, 2009 19:45 UTC (Mon) by ikm (subscriber, #493)
In reply to: Unrelated IP addresses by NAR
Parent article: Distributed brute force ssh attacks

That does make sense. Though you'd have to combine it with IP-based banning too. Otherwise it'd be really easy to DoS a specific person one happens to dislike, and also bots tend to try many different user names, not just one over and over again.


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