+DarkLord Posted November 7, 2016 Share Posted November 7, 2016 Okay, in a few days I'm going to change the DarkForce BBS to telnet port 520.So if you try to logon with the standard telnet port 23 and can't get in, try 520 instead. Thanks everyone! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Android8675 Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 OMG I totally moved my Telnet port to 24 just yesterday, Your port 23 getting hit by script kiddies too? After I did the change over, they now they try to connect to SSH port 22, but my SSH requires a valid login to be entered, and I'm guessing this bot can't comprehend what to do, so they never even get to a node. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exxosuk Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 Port attacks seemed to have gone wild over the past year, I never had any , but now on my email server I get piles of attacks. Mostly now if anyone tries a invalid SSH login, or tries to email a invalid address or something, that IP get banned for 48 hours now. I've blocked huge list of IP ranges where spam seems to keep coming from. So far it seems to be keeping the attacks down a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted November 8, 2016 Author Share Posted November 8, 2016 You should see the logs on my BBS. "unknown caller" scrolls down page after page, and it's usually something like every few minutes... Still wondering what they think they'll get from an Atari ST hardware and software based BBS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exxosuk Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 Mostly looking to see if you have a open relay email server so they can use your server to spam with. I ran a proxy server for a couple of weeks while I was testing some stuff out about a year ago, theres some site which scans IP address's and if it finds a proxy server they go and list it on their site as "free to use". I had a go at them as they got my account blocked as the server had been maxed out for over a day. They claim they hadn't listed my IP, even though it was posted on their site and they admit they scan IP's for "open proxy servers" constantly. I sent um a screenshot and didnt hear from them again. Gets me how they basically attack IP's for proxy servers and then list them without the site owners permission. Felt like sending them a bill for buggering my VPS account up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted November 9, 2016 Author Share Posted November 9, 2016 Bet you did! (and I don't blame you!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted November 10, 2016 Author Share Posted November 10, 2016 I've now changed the port. It's 520 instead of the stock/standard 23. If anyone has any problems, please let me know! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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