Re: [vox-tech] Why change default ssh port?

[Sameer Verma <sverma@sfsu.edMAPSu>]

Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> Our hosting service has (without notice) changed our default ssh port from
> 22 to 22799.  This strikes me as an unusual decision, but I am still a
> novice at this sort of thing.  Why would a host make such a switch (I
> won't ask why they wouldn't announce it ahead of time; I'm used to that
> level of service from them).
>
>
>   
Maybe too many probings at port 22? Here's Bill Ward's post from svlug
and the following thread that puts this problem into perspective.

http://lists.svlug.org/pipermail/svlug/2004-October/048288.html

Sameer

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Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Asst. Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
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