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Re: NNTP is working (mostly)
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:12:50 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.nntp, Ray Sanders wrote:
> > 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.
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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.
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> --Todd
Adapted you say, could this be the BORG !!! (:-))
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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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