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Re: NNTP is working (mostly)
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Wed, 24 Sep 2003 03:43:33 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Rob Hendrix wrote:
> > Just wanted to let people know this. 10 AM Central time. Sept. 23, 2003.
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> Actually, the site wasn't down -- only the dynamic portions of the webserver
> were shut off (voluntarily and automatically by the system) to help keep the
> load average down. The NNTP attacks are still coming and the total number of
> compromised hosts out there that have been participating in the DoS attack --
> and that are now blocked -- is up to 16. Last night I installed a throttle on
> the NNTP server to hopefully minimize the damage that newly appearing hosts can
> inflict. It's still a bit of a battle for now, though, and NNTP service is
> still spotty, I'm afraid, until we get through this.
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 sporadic outages that affect everyone?
I have no idea if that actually would work or not.
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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 (...) (21 years ago, 24-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) Actually, the site wasn't down -- only the dynamic portions of the webserver were shut off (voluntarily and automatically by the system) to help keep the load average down. The NNTP attacks are still coming and the total number of compromised (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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