Re: Question on rate limiting on nftables
Reindl Harald <[email protected]> Mon, 8 Jun 2026 18:05:48 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.security.firewalls.netfilter.general |
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| Organization | the lounge interactive design |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Am 08.06.26 um 17:01 schrieb Andre Rodier: > On Mon, 2026-06-08 at 14:32 +0000, Slavko wrote: >> Dňa 8. júna 2026 12:45:55 UTC používateľ Kerin Millar >> <[email protected]> napísal: >> >>> If the problem can be characterised as "I endure too much log noise >>> from sshd and I find it annoying" then perhaps configure sshd(8) to >>> additionally bind to some other random port than 22 and expose only >>> that port. >> >> Not worth of change ports, soon or latter it will be found >> and abused as default port. > > There is a big advantage on changing the port number, though. It is > reducing the noise considerably. Also, a connection attempts on a > different port should immediately raise attention, as it is involving > more than a basic SSH scan bot and in fact you can have a few ports before as trigger to put the IP on a drop-list for a few minutes which isn't possible when you host ftp servers