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Subject: [Discuss] Trying to connect to internet in Debian
From: richard.pieri at gmail.com (Rich Pieri)
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:51:13 -0500
In-reply-to: <3d41899e-a463-4a0b-ac03-a220a3f4c658@borg.org>
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On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:50:30 -0800
Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:

> On my servers I see the logs of thousands of failed login attempts a 
> day. So what? I have good passwords that are not recycled and used 
> elsewhere, so they are not going to get in. It doesn't bother me to
> see failed login attempts, instead it makes me happy to see bad
> people wasting their time.

Similar. My auth.log from December has 27621 invalid user entries from
264 unique IP addresses. With the bonus that I have my server
configured to use SSH keys only so every password attempt is an
automatic failure.

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References:
- [Discuss] Looking for a PCIe USB host bus adapter
  - From: richard.pieri at gmail.com (Rich Pieri)
- [Discuss] Trying to connect to internet in Debian
  - From: rrose at pobox.com (Randall Rose)
- [Discuss] Trying to connect to internet in Debian
  - From: kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)
- [Discuss] Trying to connect to internet in Debian
  - From: kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)

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