[lug] DSL ip addresse changes

David Morris lists at morris-clan.net
Tue Nov 27 16:28:25 MST 2007


On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 09:01:01AM -0700, John Hernandez wrote:
> On 11/19/07, karl horlen <horlenkarl at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Very simple question for someone to answer on the
> > board.
> >
> > I like to lockdown access to my server from specific
> > ip addresses.
> >
> 
> After doing this for years, I realized I was forever chasing my tail
> with this approach, and being shut out is no fun.  For what it's
> worth, I now keep a tidy sshd configuration, use key-based
> authentication, and pray to the gods of zero day exploits.

I do the same for my home computer, but go one step more:  I
I moved sshd to a non-standard port.  Probes at my SSH
server dropped from one a day to nothing (ever) when I did
this four years ago.

--David




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