Subj : Protection
To   : Sam Penwright
From : Richard Menedetter
Date : Sun Jan 30 2022 06:46 pm

Hi Sam!

30 Jan 2022 10:06, from Sam Penwright -> All:

 SP> What are you using to protect your computer and bbs
 SP> like peerblock firewall, pfsense- with like a check point hardware or
 SP> any other hardware? I receive a lot of hits from Russia, Korean
 SP> Republic, China etc.

What good is a firewall for that?
If you open a port for a service, then the port is open in the firewall.
If there is nothing listening on a port, it makes zero difference.

I just use fail2ban to on demand block IPs that are currently doing too many 
failed SSH logins.

CU, Ricsi

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