[arch-general] HTTP spam from China

[Caleb Allen]

@Juha why not feel comfortable sharing the location of the server?

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 9:44 AM Juha Kankare via arch-general <
arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:

> On 26/02/2019 18:40, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > Hi Juha,
> >
> >>> It's why I keep my SSH servers on a non-standard port. I know it
> >>> doesn't prevent someone from discovering it, but it cuts out 99.99%
> >>> of all those attacks, being able to filter out connection attempts
> >>> to port 22
> >> Same. For easy ports to remember, I like to combine powers of two
> >> (e.g.  25664 (256-64) or 25632). Easy to remember and non-standard.
> > I go for $RANDOM that's five digits and a valid port number.
> > To avoid remembering it, I add it to ~/.ssh/config, e.g.
> > `ssh foo' with
> >
> >      Host foo
> >      Hostname foo.bar.xyzzy.com
> >      Port 16747
> >
> Well, I have to access my server from multiple computers, including some
> where I can't use personal accounts and/or don't feel safe saving the
> location and port of my server to. I do have ~/.ssh/config set up on all
> my personal devices.
>
> --
> Juha Kankare
>
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