I'm in no danger of ssh ever being brute'd, but having logs fill up with piles of attempts is annoying and some hosts can be very persistent. In my case, I als

I'm in no danger of ssh ever being brute'd, but having logs fill up with piles of attempts is annoying and some hosts can be very persistent. In my case, I also use it to prevent other abuse: bans for ssh abuse protect other hosted services, and fail2ban has been modified to act on other forms of abuse too (like spam).