Hack attempt

[Joe Blizzard]

Someone or something is hitting my server at random intervals with random IP addresses and a limited set of invalid usernames and passwords. I've been seeing these same users and passwords in my logs for several weeks, sometimes seconds apart, sometimes minutes, but continuously. The names and passwords look familiar, old email addresses that are no longer valid and things like that for the usernames, and passwords that look like the typical weak passwords that users generate when they're allowed to roll their own. It's as if someone got hold of a twenty year-old password list from someone who used to work here and they're beating them against the FTP server. They aren't getting in, but it makes it hard to parse the logs for valid entries when they're full of this stuff. Is there anything I could or should be doing about it?

[botg]

You can safely ignore this.

[Joe Blizzard]

Interestingly, it stopped shortly after I posted the above. Maybe he's monitoring this board.

[csco]

Block the IP range...