Re: rate limiting sshd connections ?

From: Patrick Proniewski (patpro_at_patpro.net)
Date: 05/12/04

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To: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>

    On 12 mai 2004, at 06:08, Roger Marquis wrote:

    >> in fact, I've seen an Apple XServe (two G4 1GHz processors) running
    >> MacOS X Server beeing DOSed by a remote Nagios probe testing it's
    >> sshd once per minute.
    >
    > Once per minute? That's extremely unusual. Do you mean once per
    > second?

    yes, once per minute, but the box is pretty loaded on the apache front

    >> On OSX, sshd runs from xinetd.
    >
    > Sounds like a configuration issue.

    like many things on OSXS (for example bind running as root and not
    chrooted...)

    patpro 

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