Realvnc Error Too Many Security Failures
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sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Bob, "Too many security failures" indicates that the IP address from which you are connecting has been making lots of connections to the VNC Server that didn't end up
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being successfully authenticated. This is a security feature designed to prevent dictionary attacks on servers, by vnc authentication failed too many tries preventing machines from making large numbers of connections to a server over a short period of time. The message is triggered by 5 vnc too many authentication failures reset failed authentication attempts, at which point a 10 second lockout is applied before the next attempt is permitted. The next failed attempt causes the timeout to be doubled. Given that (I assume) you are seeing this message in spite
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of supplying correct credentials each time you try to log in, and that once you see the message you never again get the chance to enter a password, it sounds like something is connecting to the server from the same IP address as your viewer machine and is not authenticating, hence causing the failures. VNC 4.0 was less secure in this respect, by default, hence the different behaviour. Cheers, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > -----Original Message----- > From: vnc-list-admin
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"at" realvnc.com > [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Bob Hartung > Sent: 21 March 2005 16:55 > To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com > Subject: "Too Many Security Failures" with v4.1 > > I use RealVNC for remote administration on roughly 100 pcs. I have > mainly v3.3.7 running but I have started using v4.0. > > I've downloaded RealVNC v 4.1 Free Ed. and installed it on a > Win2000 (sp > 5) server to test it. Initially everything worked fine but then I > started getting the error message "Too many sercurity > failures. Do you > wish to attempt to reconnect to 172.16.1.20? Yes/No". I > found that it > never works to answer yes, regardless of how long you wait for the > security block to time-out. The only thing that does work is > killing the > VNC service and then restarting it. > > I finally removed v4.1 and re-installed v4.0 and the problem stopped > entirely. > > I didn't see any mention of this in the v4.1 Known Bugs page > at RealVNC. > Has anyone else seen this? > > > -- > ============================ > > Bob Hartung, Dir of I.T. > c\o Wisco Industries, Inc. > P. O. Box 10 > 736 Janesville St. > Oregon, WI 53575 > > Phone: (608) 835-3106 x215 > Fax: (608) 835-9644 > > email: bhartung(at)wiscoind.com > _______________________________________________
with RealVNC 4.1 View Options Author Message Bob Hartung Bob Hartung Posted 11 Years Ago Supreme Being Group: Forum Members vnc viewer authentication failure Last Active: Last Year Posts: 49, Visits: 178 I've downloaded RealVNC
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v 4.1 Free Ed. and installed it on a Win2000(sp5) server to test it. Initially everything worked fine how to reset vnc password but then I started getting the error message "Too many sercurity failures. Do you wish to attempt to reconnect to 172.16.1.20? Yes/No". I found that it never works to https://archive.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2005-March/049876.html answer yes, regardless of how long you wait for the security block to time-out. The only thing that does work is killing the VNC service and then restarting it.I finally removed v4.1 and re-installed v4.0 and the problem stopped entirely.The reason I'm posting this problem to this forum is that I am using VNC Manager v2.5.73 and I have http://www.s-code.com/forum/Topic284.aspx VNC set to check for server status every 15 minutes. I'm also using VNC authentication for access. Is there a chance that VNC Manager's status checking is somehow triggering RealVNC 4.1's tighter security?For reference, here's a reply regarding the problem when I posted a question regarding this to the RealVNC discussion group. In particular, the last paragraph suggesting non-authenticated communication between my PC and the targer server.Bob,"Too many security failures" indicates that the IP address from which youare connecting has been making lots of connections to the VNC Server thatdidn't end up being successfully authenticated.This is a security feature designed to prevent dictionary attacks onservers, by preventing machines from making large numbers of connections toa server over a short period of time.The message is triggered by 5 failed authentication attempts, at which pointa 10 second lockout is applied before the next attempt is permitted. Thenext failed attempt causes the timeout to be doubled.Given that (I assume) you are seeing this message in spite of supplyingcorrect credentials each time you try to log in, an
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