[arch-general] HTTP spam from China

[Zorro]

On 2/26/19 1:40 PM, Juha Kankare via arch-general wrote:
> I'm getting a lot of connections from China it seems. Whenever I check
> my journalctl, it's an andless wall of nginx complaints about a single
> ip spamming requests fro different php files. This happens with hundreds
> of ip's, and tens of times daily. Has anyone else been hit by this. I
> already made a shellscript to block all connections from China, but I'm
> curious as to why this happens, and if anyone else has had the same
> problem.

I see this happen on my SSH server.

The journal is full of these failed login attempts.
Haven't checked from where those login atttempts come from though.

It makes it hard to find something in the journal.


Regards,
Harm-Jan Zwinderman