[lug] SSH Probing Solution using IPTables

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:26:29AM -0600, George Sexton wrote:
>minutes for OpenSSH to time out on the connection attempt. I suppose hackers
>could adjust this value. It still is going to tie up the script for some
>period of time.

There is a tarpit module for iptables that will do the same without
consuming hardly any system resources.

Sean
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