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Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
The latter won't work for various reasons, including the fact that I go to secret locations and will want access.
I'm not so bothered about having it on 22 as long as I shut out repeated attempts from the same IP like above. There have not been any distributed hack attempts so I'm not worried.
I hadnt considered the secret locations factor, touche.
And yeah if youre locking out tumblers, thats another huge plus.
But the trend right now is distributed cracking through botnets, which we always see after a huge password database leak. A few thousand hosts hammering port 22 is going to result in other processes stacking up in the queue and generally shite performance.
Food for thought.
Migrating off port 22 is a fairly standard play right now.