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Re: NNTP news server restarted
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Sat, 20 Sep 2003 19:42:58 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Todd Lehman wrote:
> 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 even now is trying to
> make) multiple simultaneous, aggressive, CPU-intensive NNTP connections.
> Anytime I killed one of these connections, a new one started up
> instantly. Consequently, I have blocked the offending IP address and
> it is no longer able to make NNTP connections. I apoligize for any
> outage you experience because of this.
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 error today, try again a couple times and it may work.
--Todd
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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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| (...) 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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