On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 11:28:53PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 21:14:51 +0200 > Antti Talsta <atal...@nothingtosee.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 01:49:34PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > Changing the port at least decreases the number of brute force attacks > > > against you, which saves resources (bandwidth, CPU) that are otherwise > > > wasted by the attackers. > > > > How about fail2ban for that? > > How fail2ban can help against an army of bots trying one single > password per bot? > That actually works well. Usually it's multiple attempts from one ip. fail2ban catches exactly that. And then blacklists that ip.
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