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(...) Yup, started doing that Monday evening. It worked quite well for a while, until the author of the attacks discovered the tarpit behavior and adapted. --Todd (23 years ago, 24-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Just a passing idea.. setting up a tarpit to mimmic the NNTP server, then sending the misbehaving traffic there rather than blocking it. That might slow down the offending servers to such a point that they back off. Ray (23 years ago, 24-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) I suggest it as a temporary measure only until this problem were resolved other ways. Think of it as a detour while the real road is repaired. I have no idea if it's technically even feasible, or would solve the problem (from the outside (...) (23 years ago, 24-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:HLp90M.191p@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped .. ] (...) worse, or (...) Please don't do this. Turning off NNTP would dramatically reduce my (and I suspect many others) participation in (...) (23 years ago, 24-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Any chance that turning off NNTP (except as presented by the web or mail interfaces, but not accepting stuff from the outside world) would work? It would mean that nntp users would be cut off completely, but is that worse, or better, than (...) (23 years ago, 24-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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