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Subject: 
Very strange server behavior today
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lugnet.announce
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:41:09 GMT
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Hi all,

unfortunately I had to realize a disturbance in the LUGNET main server's
performance today, which at first appeared somewhat inexplicable but ended up
being identified as some significant traffic on a normally rather quiet NNTP
service.

I know many of you are relying on the NNTP service to read and post LUGNET news.
That's entirely fine. However I found a small number of IP addresses basically
generating so much traffic that the system was next to unusable. What's worse,
after a couple of weeks without significant email outages, the email service
also stopped working, so you may find posts sent through email or the web and
waiting for authentication to be delayed.

I have identified the IP addresses generating the obviously malevolent traffic
and locked them out of the NNTP service. Email is already back to nominal, so my
hope is that sorts it all out.

Have fun,

Jerry



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Very strange server behavior today
 
"Gereon "Jerry" Stein" <jerry@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:K5urGL.Gxy@lugnet.com... (...) If this continues to be a problem I would recommend that LUGNET should go into a completely web-based server setup. Allowing for the initial time to (...) (16 years ago, 20-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.general)  
  Re: Very strange server behavior today
 
As a follow-up to the original announcement, I would like to let everyone know that the "visitor" who basically jammed the NNTP service came back this morning. Since nothing else seemed to help, I had to block out his or her IP range entirely from (...) (16 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.admin.general)

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