CentOS - Jan 2007 - vsftpd - too many FAIL connects

Dear all,

Please find my logwatch results for vsftpd service. i am running updated vsftpd
on centos-4.1 and still i am getting some probes.

Could someone put some light on this issue. I am little worried about
these probes.

       Processing Initiated: Wed Jan 31 05:21:37 2007

 --------------------- vsftpd-messages Begin ------------------------

Failed FTP Logins:
 (218.208.60.33): tsinternetuser - 619 Time(s)

 ---------------------- vsftpd-messages End -------------------------

thanks
Sabeer MZ

> Please find my logwatch results for vsftpd service. i am running updated
vsftpd
> on centos-4.1 and still i am getting some probes.
>
> Could someone put some light on this issue. I am little worried about
> these probes.
Sure. Some bot is checking you for exploits, or other vulnerabilities
available via FTP. If this has to be public ftp, make sure to keep
your system updated, use selinux, and you may consider limiting NEW
connection types via iptables, which should slow down junk like this.

If it's ftp just for you and some friends, restrict it to known ip
addresses or use sftp/scp instead.




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