a record?

Fri Nov 18 10:26:30 UTC 2005

John Levine wrote:

>>>Moving sshd from port 22 to port 137, 138 or 139. Nasty eh?
>>>      
>>>
>>don't do that! Lots of (access) isps around the world (esp here in
>>Europe) block those ports
>>    
>>
>
>If you're going to move sshd somewhere else, port 443 is a fine
>choice.  Rarely blocked, rarely probed by ssh kiddies.  It's probed
>all the time by malicious web spiders, but since you're not a web
>server, you don't care.
>  
>

Except if you're running a version of OpenSSL that has a vulnerability, 
you could be inviting trouble - particularly with kiddies scanning for 
Apache with vulnerable versions of OpenSSL attached by way of mod_ssl etc...

Regards,

Mat