Web, as a wild place, is not a safe playground to me. I have a server, got so many attacking everyday. It is only two small sites running on it.

What can I do? I have to protect myself by my computer skills.

I install and enabled PAM_abl black list function for SSH security.
Now four days passed. Let us see how the result.

pam_abl_ip_blocking

One IP tried 424 times to login.

The other tried more than one thousand times.

I have to say, it is a good tool to protect my SSH server and save a lot of resource.

The top three IPs and countries are following:
196.201.78.12 COTE D’IVOIRE
174.34.133.252 UNITED STATES
124.248.35.109 CHINA

The longer the system running, the more IP will be logged.

David Yin

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