[Info-vax] Connecting and logging in to Eisner

[Mark Daniel]

On 21/2/21 5:08 pm, Mark Daniel wrote:
> On 21/2/21 4:54 pm, Hunter Goatley wrote:
>> On 2/19/2021 7:33 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>
>>> If the person logging in uses SSH it isn't necessary.  It would be good
>>> to have such a message display for attempted connections to port 23.
>>>
>>
>> I/we considered such a thing, but one reason we finally shut down 
>> TELNET, aside from the obvious security considerations, is that EISNER 
>> was constantly being slammed on port 23---thousands and thousands of 
>> connections per day from bots, password crackers, etc. Now they get no 
>> response at all, instead of EISNER continuing to tell them thousands 
>> and thousands of times a day to use SSH instead....
>>
>> The EISNER web page states that you can access the system via SSH.
>>
>> Or someone can post here and ask. ;-)
> 
> macpro:~ mark$ telnet eisner.decus.org
> Trying 216.41.237.174...
> Connected to eisner.decus.org.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> ************************************************
> 
> TELNET terminal access to EISNER is unavailable!
> 
> Please use the instructions available at...
> https://eisner.decus.org/online/ssh
> https://eisner.decus.org/online/DCLinabox
> https://eisner.decus.org/
> 
> ************************************************
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> macpro:~ mark$
> 
> Seemed reasonable when first suggested in this forum so it's been set up 
> since then.  Surprised it hasn't been noticed/reported.  Of course now 
> 60% of connection traffic on EISNER is port 23.
> 

FWIW with 65k requests (8 days); port 23 (connections) 8.2k (13%) and 
2.5MB traffic (1%), the rest 57k (87%) requests and 238MB traffic (99%).

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