From: Gordon Fisher <gordfisherman@gmail.com>
To: Kerin Millar <kfm@plushkava.net>, Andre Rodier <andre@rodier.me>,
netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question on rate limiting on nftables
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:55:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5a12f4da-c052-493b-8cd5-3b5319d05057@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8d84a240-b9ae-41f4-b111-33007909b0a2@app.fastmail.com>
On 6/8/26 5:45 AM, Kerin Millar wrote:
> [...]
>
> 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.
>
> [...]
Another way is to simply disallow (drop) all connections to resources
you don't want the random public to access, and only allow the
hosts/networks you actually desire to get in. This has long been my
policy on any server that I administer and thus never had a problem with
random probes.
--
gfish
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-25 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-08 11:30 Question on rate limiting on nftables Andre Rodier
2026-06-08 12:45 ` Kerin Millar
2026-06-08 13:14 ` Andre Rodier
2026-06-08 14:32 ` Slavko
2026-06-08 15:01 ` Andre Rodier
2026-06-08 15:57 ` Lars Noodén
2026-06-08 17:05 ` Kerin Millar
2026-06-25 17:20 ` Gordon Fisher
2026-06-08 16:05 ` Reindl Harald
2026-06-08 17:10 ` Kerin Millar
2026-06-26 17:04 ` Gordon Fisher
2026-06-08 16:56 ` Slavko
2026-06-08 17:24 ` Kerin Millar
2026-06-08 15:25 ` Kerin Millar
2026-06-25 16:55 ` Gordon Fisher [this message]
2026-06-08 21:54 ` imnozi
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