Hi, We implemented fail2ban about a year ago to cut down on incoming spamming (down from 500k+ emails a day to 20k) Now what can I do with the ~11,000 IP's I identify as spammer every week :( Reporting them to their Telco is pretty much a waste of time... they are not about to lose customers to something as trivial as computer security. ----- Alain Hebert ahebert@pubnix.net PubNIX Inc. 50 boul. St-Charles P.O. Box 26770 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 6G7 Tel: 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.net Fax: 514-990-9443 On 06/28/12 17:52, TR Shaw wrote:
On Jun 28, 2012, at 4:31 PM, Lou Katz wrote:
The other day, I looked carefully at my auth.log (Xubuntu 11.04) and discovered many lines of the form:
Jun 28 13:13:54 localhost sshd[12654]: Bad protocol version identification '\200F\001\003\001' from 94.252.177.159
In the past day, I have recorded about 20,000 unique IP addresses used for this type of probe. I doubt if this is a surprise to anyone - my question is twofold:
1. Does anyone want this evergrowing list of, I assume, compromised machines? 2. Is there anything useful to do with this info other than put the IP addresses into a firewall reject table? I have done that and do see a certain amount of repeat hits. Just a note that if you were running fail2ban.org you would get automatic updates of your firewall and share the IPs with the community and get the advantage of the communities detections as well.