Subj : Crazy BBS connections
To   : Sam Alexander
From : echicken
Date : Tue Mar 22 2022 03:05:44

  Re: Crazy BBS connections
  By: Sam Alexander to All on Mon Mar 21 2022 12:33:52

 SA> getting telnet and ssh connections almost constantly, about 3-5 a minute
 SA> if not more. Trying randon usernames and such. I guess this is normal
 SA> now'days? I'm running sync at home over my broadband connection, so I

It's normal and don't worry about it unless you really want to. Scripts are attacking your server, but they wouldn't know what to do if they got in. They're expecting bash or some IoT device, not a BBS.

The worst thing that ever happened to me was that spurious SSH connections would jam up all of my nodes and take forever to disconnect. I did something slightly hacky with text.dat and a script to disconnect them more quickly. Can't remember the details right now.

There's stuff you can do to mitigate it a bit, but you'll also be fine if you ignore it. I mostly do, and I'm still alive.
  
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