On 2008-11-06, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 05:33:41PM +0000, Charlie Clark wrote: >> I have noticed that people constantly try to brute force sshd on my >> openbsd box, on my server I use fail2ban to prevent this and wondered if >> there is a similar solution for openbsd. > > Yes, but why would you want to do that? It doesn't help in any real > sense
It helps reduce use of CPU and the /var/log disk. But so does the simpler "block proto tcp to port ssh" / "pass proto tcp from <ADMIN_NETS> to port ssh".
