Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

I recently installed FreeBSD 6.1 on my gateway. It replaced an
installation of FreeBSD 4.6.8 (fresh install, not an upgrade) on which I had
disabled the SSH server. Since all the bugs in SSH are fixed now ( :-) ), I
thought I'd leave the server on, and am somewhat dismayed to discover that I
now get occasional brute-force/dictionary attacks on the port.

A little Googling revealed a couple of potentially useful tools:
's***' and 'bruteblock', both of which notice repeated login attempts from
a given IP address and blackhole it in the firewall. I first tried 's***',
but after a couple days, I noticed in my daily reports that I was still
getting lengthy bruteforce attempts, suggesting the 's***' was not working.

So I uninstalled 's***' and installed 'bruteblock'. But again a
couple days later, the logs showed lengthy bruteforce attempts going
unblocked.

The relevant lines from my /etc/syslog.conf file are:

----
auth.info;authpriv.info /var/log/auth.log
auth.info;authpriv.info | exec /usr/local/sbin/bruteblock -f /usr/local/etc/bruteblock/ssh.conf
----

Any hints as to what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks,
Schwab
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