Subj : Automatically blocking co
To   : DIGITAL MAN
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Tue Jun 04 2024 09:34 am

> Bots generally try to login, so that's the mechanism used (failed login
> attempts) for counting/throttling - not connections. If something connects and
> disconnects rapidly, who cares?

I ran into issues (with 3.19 and before, anyway) where people or bots were
hitting the telnet port rapidly and apparently not trying to log in, which
meant they were not being throttled.

It would eventually "crash" telnet.  I would have expected it to take down
the whole terminal server but SSH would still be working.  I would only
find out about it when a user complained that the BBS was down.  A recycle
of sbbs would fix it.

So while I would not normally care, I sometimes am forced to.  ;)


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