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nullhead on March 23, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Endlessh: An SSH Tarpit

Set this up on a server last night. In 20 hours I've got 75 connections. Took a capture of trying to connect to it from my laptop:

https://www.cloudshark.org/captures/b64150b66908

IP addresses have been change to protect the innocent. This is from macOS but definitely seeing some different behavior from other clients.

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