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From: Jeremy Chadwick
Subject: Re: SSH Brute Force attempts
Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 2:45 am

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 09:56:32AM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:

In no way shape or form does this solve the problem of the attackers
being able to establish a TCP connection to you -- they are still tying
up sockets, mbufs, and extra network I/O (coming from you when you
respond and close the socket).

TCP wrappers are absolutely 100% worthless in this day and age.

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                jdc at parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking                       http://www.parodius.com/ |
| UNIX Systems Administrator                  Mountain View, CA, USA |
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