Hi Juha,
> > It's why I keep my SSH servers on a non-standard port. I know it
> > doesn't prevent someone from discovering it, but it cuts out 99.99%
> > of all those attacks, being able to filter out connection attempts
> > to port 22
>
> Same. For easy ports to remember, I like to combine powers of two
> (e.g. 25664 (256-64) or 25632). Easy to remember and non-standard.
I go for $RANDOM that's five digits and a valid port number.
To avoid remembering it, I add it to ~/.ssh/config, e.g.
`ssh foo' with
Host foo
Hostname foo.bar.xyzzy.com
Port 16747
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Cheers, Ralph.
