inbound ssh ceased on 4 servers at same time

[Brian Reichert]

On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 12:10:28AM -0500, John Brooks wrote:
> today at about noon, all four freebsd servers on a clients lan
> quit accepting ssh connections.

I've been seeing a lot of brute-force sshd attacks, which leave
a lot of connections in an awkward state.  I've done this for my
primary sshd server, and seems to have alleviated my problems:

LoginGraceTime 60
MaxStartups 10:30:60

> --
> John Brooks
> john at day-light.com 

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