I am hosting PiBBS on the default telnet port (23) and, as you can imagine, I'm getting a lot of...shall we say...unwanted traffic. By default, Mystic is doing a pretty good job of banning the ones that are actively trying to brute-force the login.
For now, I'm set to 4 attempts in 120 sec, as seen in one of Mystic Guy's videos. And my blacklist is growing at what appears to be an exponential rate, so obviously it's working.
But...is it working TOO well? o_O
It does work. I'm running the same settings here, 4 attempts in 120 seconds. Right now, my blacklist.txt file is at 81529 lines, so Mystic
has blocked a few. ;)
Another thing you can do, is run a 'Press Esc Twice to Continue' script. This will reduce the amount of time Mystic will sit on the login screen before disconnecting them. I have one running here at CRBBS that I
wrote, and hasn't been released. But, there is at least one other one
out there from Phenom that will work as well.
[...]Also, how many nodes are your
running in Mystic? I have mine set to 10 nodes. When I started running Mystic, there were times I couldn't log in, as all 10 nodes were being occupied by bots... Now, it's pretty rare that I'm not able to log in on either node 1 or 2, still out of 10.
I saw a very retro-cool looking 'Press Esc Twice' screen on 20forbeers BBS. I was immediately impressed by that and the 'captcha'-esque secondary. These are goals for my BBS, for sure!
Hi All!
I am hosting PiBBS on the default telnet port (23) and, as you can imagine, I'm getting a lot of...shall we say...unwanted traffic. By default, Mystic is doing a pretty good job of banning the ones that are actively trying to brute-force the login.
I am hosting PiBBS on the default telnet port (23) and, as you can imagi I'm getting a lot of...shall we say...unwanted traffic. By default, Myst doing a pretty good job of banning the ones that are actively trying to brute-force the login.
- Ban on 4 failed attemps in 2 minutes
Sysop: | digital man |
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Location: | Riverside County, California |
Users: | 1,056 |
Nodes: | 17 (0 / 17) |
Uptime: | 41:45:06 |
Calls: | 501,039 |
Calls today: | 5 |
Files: | 109,385 |
D/L today: |
1,235 files (1,428M bytes) |
Messages: | 305,175 |