Endlessh

SSH tarpit (port 2222)

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 a time. The purpose is to put your real SSH server on another port and then let the script kiddies get stuck in this tarpit instead of bothering a real server.

📜 Source: https://github.com/skeeto/endlessh
Setup: https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-endlessh/#application-setup

name: endlessh
services:
  endlessh:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/endlessh:latest # No semantic version tags are available
    container_name: endlessh
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      PUID: ${PUID}
      PGID: ${PGID}
      TZ: ${TIMEZONE}
      MSDELAY: 10000
      MAXLINES: 32
      MAXCLIENTS: 4096
      LOGFILE: true # /config/logs/endlessh/
      BINDFAMILY:
    volumes:
      - ${DOCKER_VOLUMES}/endlessh:/config
    ports:
      - 2222:2222
    labels:
      homepage.group: Security
      homepage.name: Endlessh
      homepage.icon: terminal.png
      homepage.description: "SSH tarpit (port 2222)"