Subj : Re: SSH...
To   : Bucko
From : claw
Date : Sun Oct 02 2022 09:44 pm

On 30 Sep 2022, Bucko said the following...
 Bu> LOL Yea I figured that.. Tonight it's not as bad as it has been, so I am
 Bu> happy for that.. The bot checker is installed and working, best thing I
 Bu> ever installed.. One night before the bot checker a few years back I had
 Bu> all 10 lines filled with bots.. Best was my CNet Amiga board, I couldn't
 Bu> log in one night so I pull up the VPN screen of it and all 10 lines are
 Bu> lit up answering and hanging up, I had 1400 calls that day! LOL Sad part
 Bu> was it was all 1 IP address, and it was hitting every CNet Amiga board
 Bu> that night.. We all blocked that one IP and it was good.. Jeez..
 Bu> Al

Another thing I do is run PFSense with PFBlockerNG it has some nice auto update IP blocking filters and also allows blocking of countries and so on.  I believe many of the bots get block by that before they ever reach the BBS.

Its free and easy to use.  

Take a little bit to get setup mostly because you have to take the time to pick what to block.  Worth the time though.

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