[Discuss] Trying to connect to internet in Debian

[Rich Pieri]

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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