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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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(...) 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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(...) 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 (21 years ago, 24-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) I suggest it as a temporary measure only until this problem were resolved other ways. Think of it as a detour while the real road is repaired. I have no idea if it's technically even feasible, or would solve the problem (from the outside (...) (21 years ago, 24-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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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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(...) 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 (...) (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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(...) Frank, I've been experiencing a high increase in the amount of such e-mails that I receive every day. In the past months, it had been around 5/day (spamblocks in message headers being almost innefective for the already harvested adress), now (...) (21 years ago, 22-Sep-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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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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(...) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 20-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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(...) Yes yes yes yes... the FTX makes links in messages basically useless. I cant click on them anymore and instead have to manually cut and paste them into a browser :-( just my 17 Deniria (exchange rate, approximately US-Earth$ 0.02) (21 years ago, 20-Aug-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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