Subj : Re: Autoban settings
To   : McDoob
From : Black Panther
Date : Tue Dec 14 2021 03:35 pm

On 14 Dec 2021, 04:49p, McDoob said the following...
 
 Mc> I am hosting PiBBS on the default telnet port (23) and, as you can
 Mc> imagine, I'm getting a lot of...shall we say...unwanted traffic. By
 Mc> default, Mystic is doing a pretty good job of banning the ones that are
 Mc> actively trying to brute-force the login. 

Ah, yes. The never-ending bots... Mystic actually handles them quite well, in my opinion. 

 Mc> For now, I'm set to 4 attempts in 120 sec, as seen in one of Mystic Guy's
 Mc> videos. And my blacklist is growing at what appears to be an exponential
 Mc> rate, so obviously it's working.

It does work. I'm running the same settings here, 4 attempts in 120 seconds. Right now, my blacklist.txt file is at 81529 lines, so Mystic has blocked a few. ;)

Another thing you can do, is run a 'Press Esc Twice to Continue' script. This will reduce the amount of time Mystic will sit on the login screen before disconnecting them. I have one running here at CRBBS that I wrote, and hasn't been released. But, there is at least one other one out there from Phenom that will work as well.

 Mc> But...is it working TOO well? o_O

I think it'll be fine. You will have quite a few being blacklisted for awhile, but the numbers will slow down. Also, how many nodes are your running in Mystic? I have mine set to 10 nodes. When I started running Mystic, there were times I couldn't log in, as all 10 nodes were being occupied by bots... Now, it's pretty rare that I'm not able to log in on either node 1 or 2, still out of 10.


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