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(...) Thanks for your continued efforts, Todd. It is appreciated. Dave K (21 years ago, 26-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) SFF Net (URL) had similar problems and has the following page of documentation on how to reconfigure your newsreader: (URL) you read LUGNET via the web interface, please disregard this. This is only if you read via NNTP. --Todd (21 years ago, 26-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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Due to a recent distributed denial of service attack, we have shut down NNTP service on port 119 to prevent further service interruptions. Alternate ports 1119, 8000, and 8080 are still available. --Todd (21 years ago, 26-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.announce) !!
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(...) Hard to know for sure. More and more, it's seeming like the former rather than the latter. Early on, the attacks all consisted of commands to repeatedly list the contents of known existing newsgroups on this server, which made it seem (...) (21 years ago, 25-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Please cancel my last message.
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Todd, Could you cancel my previous message to this group? I was grumpy from lugnet withdrawl and posted without thinking first. Don (21 years ago, 25-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: NNTP is working (mostly)
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(...) Adapted you say, could this be the BORG !!! (:-)) (21 years ago, 25-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: NNTP is working (mostly)
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(...) Todd, pardon my ignorance, but is this a DoS aimed at Lugnet specifically, or a more generic NNTP attack? who would want to pester Lugnet? Chris (21 years ago, 25-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Cool. One person posting over on BL suggested that the attack might be a generic SWEN attack looking to gather email addresses for other neferious purposes. One site[1] has chossen to move the NNTP port to 1119 temporarily until such time as (...) (21 years ago, 25-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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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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