OpenSSH HPN

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Willem Jan Withagen <wjw at digiware.nl> writes:
> Digging in my logfiles .... , and its things like:
>  sshd[84942]: Disconnecting: Too many authentication failures [preauth]
>
> So errors/warnings without IP-nr.
>
> And I think I fixed it on one server to also write:
> error: maximum authentication attempts exceeded for root from
> 173.254.203.88 port 1042 ssh2 [preauth]

fail2ban should catch both of these since sshd will print a message for
each failed authentication attempt before it prints a message about
reaching the limit.

> Are they still willing to accept changes to the old version that is
> currently in base?

No, why would they do that?

DES
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