Re: What's going on with pgfoundry?

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>
Cc: Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: What's going on with pgfoundry?
Date: 2008-11-26 20:35:55
Message-ID: 20081126203555.GE2018@fetter.org
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On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:51:23AM -0800, Steve Crawford wrote:
> Kris Jurka wrote:
>> On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Dave Page wrote:
>>
>>> It's the same IP address - but try port 35 for ssh. Marc changed
>>> it (temporarily) due to a vast number of malicious connection
>>> attempts.
>>
>> Why wasn't this change communicated to anyone, not even
>> gforge-admins? How temporary is temporary?
>>
>> Kris Jurka
>>
> I can't speak to the administrative and communications aspects, but
> based on my experience, I can recommend communicating to the
> appropriate users and making the change permanent.

We should move to a port-knocking
<http://dotancohen.com/howto/portknocking.html> or other modern
strategy if we're going to move at all.

Cheers,
David.
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