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Edit Post #282432 Initial revision almost 3 years ago
Answer A: What is the main reason for some website hosting companies to change ports?
Many automated scanners will attempts brute forcing SSH servers running on port 22 using common username+password pairs. This is relatively easy. You just have to pick an IP range and you have as many ports to test as there are IPs in the range (one port per IP). Change the SSH port to a different...
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almost 3 years ago
Comment Post #282320 I'm not sure if this is what OP means by "port forwarding". The term is more commonly used for assigning a port number to a particular IP behind a NAT gateway.
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Edit Post #282105 Initial revision almost 3 years ago
Question Code of Conduct link in the tour is broken
Hi Power Users! The "Code of Conduct" link in the tour leads to this URL, which produces a 500 error for me. Screenshot of the error page. The issue is 100% repeatable. I'm currently using Firefox 88 if that helps.
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almost 3 years ago