[asterisk-users] Under heavy attack

[Stuart Sheldon]

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We are also seeing an increase in attacks. And yes, there is a benefit
to blocking them. They tend to go away if you have them restricted,
where if you let them go at it, they will sit on your host for sometimes
hours.

Stu


On 10/30/2010 12:43 PM, Joel Maslak wrote:
> Is there really any benefit to blocking these, if you use good passwords?
> 
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Warren Selby <wcselby at selbytech.com
> <mailto:wcselby at selbytech.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I'm experiencing this on one of my clients servers. The attack is
>     ongoing. 
> 
>     Thanks,
>     --Warren Selby
> 
>     On Oct 30, 2010, at 2:28 PM, Zeeshan Zakaria <zishanov at gmail.com
>     <mailto:zishanov at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>>     My main asterisk server is under unusual heavy attack, and so far
>>     Fail2Ban has blocked about 30 IPs, from various different
>>     countries. At this time it is blocking about 1 IP address every
>>     few minutes.
>>
>>     Just wondering if anybody else is also experiencing unusually
>>     increased hack attempts today?
>>
>>     Zeeshan A Zakaria
>>
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