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Re: Server freakage today
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Date: 
Sat, 11 Nov 2000 00:21:40 GMT
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Maybe that kid you all were so mean to a few weeks ago is now getting his
revenge?

I hope not.

John Matthews


Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message
news:G3u303.yI@lugnet.com...
In lugnet.admin.general, Erik Olson writes:
Is it possibly related to someone address harvesting?

No -- the load from something like that would still be very low relative • to
something like this.  Something like this is either a very sneaky DoS • attack
or the server stepping on its own feet due to an internal bug.  I highly
suspect the latter.

BTW, the most recent outage (about a half hour ago) was caused by me • trying
to reproduce the mess under more controlled and monitorable conditions. • It
started freaking out within 1/2 second of what I did, so I'm pretty • certain
it was me.  I'll explain what I did to make it freak out when I'm sure • it's
fixed.

--Todd



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(...) No -- the load from something like that would still be very low relative to something like this. Something like this is either a very sneaky DoS attack or the server stepping on its own feet due to an internal bug. I highly suspect the latter. (...) (24 years ago, 11-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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