Re: a record?

[Matthew Sullivan <matthew () sorbs net>]

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