- dtucker@cvs.openbsd.org 2013/02/06 00:20:42
[servconf.c sshd_config sshd_config.5]
Change default of MaxStartups to 10:30:100 to start doing random early
drop at 10 connections up to 100 connections. This will make it harder
to DoS as CPUs have come a long way since the original value was set
back in 2000. Prompted by nion at debian org, ok markus@
diff --git a/servconf.c b/servconf.c
index 21b371c..b2a60fd 100644
--- a/servconf.c
+++ b/servconf.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-/* $OpenBSD: servconf.c,v 1.233 2012/12/02 20:46:11 djm Exp $ */
+/* $OpenBSD: servconf.c,v 1.234 2013/02/06 00:20:42 dtucker Exp $ */
/*
* Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland
* All rights reserved
@@ -256,11 +256,11 @@
if (options->gateway_ports == -1)
options->gateway_ports = 0;
if (options->max_startups == -1)
- options->max_startups = 10;
+ options->max_startups = 100;
if (options->max_startups_rate == -1)
- options->max_startups_rate = 100; /* 100% */
+ options->max_startups_rate = 30; /* 30% */
if (options->max_startups_begin == -1)
- options->max_startups_begin = options->max_startups;
+ options->max_startups_begin = 10;
if (options->max_authtries == -1)
options->max_authtries = DEFAULT_AUTH_FAIL_MAX;
if (options->max_sessions == -1)