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Re: [trinity-users] Re: upgrade trinity

From: Mike Bird <mgb-trinity@...>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 09:01:00 -0700
On Fri April 12 2019 08:41:10 Michael Howard via trinity-users wrote:
> Of course it's possible to block millions, if you have their IPs. It
> wouldn't be efficient but then 'millions' are not brute force attacking
> my, or your, or deloptes system at any one time. If they were, it would
> be pointless anyway. The point is, if you have a regularly updated list
> of known spam IPs, which we do, and you use a decent firewall, which I
> do, you can prevent a huge amount of brute force attacks by just
> dropping the connection.

I'm unclear what you're referring to as your "regularly updated list".

Is this SYN rate limiting or fail2ban or a manually maintained list
or something else?

--Mike