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Christopher Wellons
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Endlessh is an SSH tarpit that *very* slowly sends an endless, random
SSH banner. It keeps SSH clients locked up for hours or even days at at
time. The purpose is to put your real SSH server on another port and
then let the script kiddies get themselves stuck in this tarpit instead
of bothering a real server.
then let the script kiddies get stuck in this tarpit instead of
bothering a real server.
Since the tarpit is the banner, before any cryptographic exchange
Since the tarpit is in the banner before any cryptographic exchange
occurs, this program doesn't depend on any cryptographic libraries. It's
a simple, single-threaded, standalone C program. It uses `poll()` to
trap multiple clients at a time.
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-v Print diagnostics to standard output (repeatable)
```
Argument order matters. The configuration file is loaded when the `-f`
argument is processed, so only the options that follow will override the
configuration file.
By default no log messages are produced. The first `-v` enables basic
logging and a second `-v` enables debug logging (noisy). All log
logging and a second `-v` enables debugging logging (noisy). All log
messages are sent to standard output.
endlessh -v >endlessh.log 2>endlessh.err