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|    Robert Wolfe to Jeff Smith    |
|    Re: Telnet Login Attacks?    |
|    10 May 16 17:44:36    |
      -=> Jeff Smith wrote to All <=-               JS> Any tips or suggestions as to a way to limit/avoids telnet login        JS> attacks on BBBS?               JS> Lately I have been getting numerious telnet login attempts by IP's that        JS> reversely resolve to Asian countries. The same IP will try to login to        JS> all available nodes. No actual login is attempted. Each open node will        JS> sit open at the login name prompt.I have been adding up to 5 IP's at a        JS> time to the INET.BBB file. Which then blocks those IP's. But there are        JS> plenty of other IP's. :-)               Yeah, I think that this is a problem for every one of us that runs a        BBS. It got to the poing where I have inbound telnet and binkp        connections running on only a certain group of nodes and web services        running on another group of nodes.               * Suicidal dyslexic jumps behind train - film at 11        * TagIt!/2 Version 1.00 for OS/2              --- BBBS/2 v4.10 Dada-1        * Origin: Neptune's Lair/2 (1:116/17)    |
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