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Due to what appears to be an excessively high load condition (more than 20 times normal) last night the news server stopped accepting NNTP connections and consequently also new messages (except for a few system-internal messages posted at midnight (...) (21 years ago, 20-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) An update: Although the above resulted in the server accepting new posts again, it was still running an excessively high load. The problem appears to have stemmed from someone in Toronto, Canada running a script which was making (and still (...) (21 years ago, 20-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) There appears also to be a similar attack coming from another address in Wellsville, New York, the combination of which are still causing sporadic connection problems, although the system load is greatly reduced. If you get an NNTP connection (...) (21 years ago, 20-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) The past couple days, my e-mail has been swamped with junk mail with huge attachments. I wonder if a similar virus situation is making NNTP attacks in addition to SMTP attacks? Frank (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Frank, I've been experiencing a high increase in the amount of such e-mails that I receive every day. In the past months, it had been around 5/day (spamblocks in message headers being almost innefective for the already harvested adress), now (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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