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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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