tar pit?

[Scott Silva]

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dave wrote:
| Hello,
|     I was wondering if you had a howto on setting up a tar pit? I'm using
| FreeBSD 5.x machines, my primary goal for doing this is i'm getting ssh
| connections as well as many people trying to relay mail through me.
I've got
| discard rules and they don't succeed, but i'd rather cut them off before
| they can sap my band width.
|     Any help appreciated.
| Thanks.
| Dave.
A tarpit would not help with connections to a service you use. A tarpit
is usually used on ports you DON'T use. But some reading and a very good
tarpit is here;
http://labrea.sourceforge.net/


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