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		njharman on March 11, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is it normal to get hundreds of break-in attempts ... I'd say hundreds is not normal. It is order of magnitude too low.

wtn on March 11, 2011 [–]

How would you define an order of mangitude in this case?

seiji on March 11, 2011 | [–]

At times, a few hundred per minute is "normal."

I prefer port knocking or two factor auth as a solution to brute force attacks. http://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/

lsc on March 12, 2011 | | [–]

eh, disabling password auth solves the problem almost as well.

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