Dealing with ftp attacks

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 03:59:33PM -0400, John Abreau wrote:
> I dealt with it by blocking the ip addresses with 
> 
>     route add -net 211.152.33.0/24 reject
> 
> which interrupted the attack before the server could lock up. 
> And I just got yet another alert, a few minutes ago; these 
> assholes seem determined to break in. 
> 
> One concern I have is that these routes will gradually 
> clog up my routing table. Also, this machine is our external 
> mail server, and we have customers in China, so I can't just 
> block off all of China. 

TCP Wrappers -- vsftpd.conf: tcp_wrappers

limit connectivity per IP: vsftpd.conf: max_per_ip

limit connectivity over-all: vsftpd.conf: max_clients

use limiting features of xinetd or other wrapper

use the firewall's blocking features -- this is hidden behind a
firewall, right?

use an RBL lookup before granting access; maintain your own RBL.

-dsr-

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