[Info-vax] runaway TCP/IP ssh server processes

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2017-07-16 13:02:59 +0000, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG said:

> Periodically, I am finding TCPIP$SSH_xxxx server processes consuming 
> large amounts of CPU time.  These tend to bring the system to its 
> knees.  There's no doubt that it's being precipitated by some attempt 
> to exploit ssh.  Has anybody experienced this?  Any clues as to how 
> these processes gets in this state and or how to thwart it?

Use a network firewall, and VPN into the firewall.   Don't allow remote 
ssh connections to reach OpenVMS other than via VPN.



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