From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RKiyU-0005De-HQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:55:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2154321C078 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:55:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from egr.msu.edu (jeeves.egr.msu.edu [35.9.37.127]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j92LmsU3008810 for ; Sun, 2 Oct 2005 21:48:54 GMT Received: from [35.9.36.120] (dhcp-35-9-36-120 [35.9.36.120]) by egr.msu.edu (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j92Luq2o025244 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 2 Oct 2005 17:56:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <434057A4.6010804@egr.msu.edu> Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 17:56:52 -0400 From: Alec Joseph Warner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-security@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-security@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-security@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] [OT?] automatically firewalling off IPs References: <43404CB8.3@lunatic.net.nz> <200510022337.49116.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <200510022337.49116.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4450db7e-6274-4172-9a35-c2e22d9fe521 X-Archives-Hash: 6a0d4d0d38863ed34be5b953a612173e > and what do you do, if they spoof your gateway/router/nameservers ip? > If you use key-based authentifiction, you shouldn't have to fear brute-force > attemps... and as the others wrote, changing the port, may also help a bit. You have exclusions for hosts you obviously don't want blocked. Key-based auth is not viable for everyone. -- gentoo-security@gentoo.org mailing list