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Re: NNTP is working (mostly)
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Wed, 24 Sep 2003 19:29:06 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.
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> --Todd
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
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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 (21 years ago, 24-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: NNTP is working (mostly)
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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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