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eBay nailed?
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lugnet.market.theory
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Wed, 9 Feb 2000 05:34:23 GMT
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Hi everyone,
Well, I hear that the "attack-search" weenies have turned their guns
from Yahoo to eBay and buy.com. Their method seems to be to simply
overwhelm the search engine with constant queries--by the hundreds of
thousands per minute. Sure enough, the search engine and all query
spots are malfunctioning at the present time (midnight plus thirty EST),
giving a "no contact" response. MisterLister also won't connect. I
wonder, what does one do to protect a site from this intra-internet
version of attack dialing? Has eBay merely taken the search engine
offline until they can devise a solution?
Just a concern.
best,
Lindsay
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: eBay nailed?
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| (...) Well, there is really very little that one can do to prevent this kind of attack. Limiting people's ability to search is limiting users. It is very difficult to determine what a genuine search and what is a bogus one, since the bogus one is (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
| | | Re: eBay nailed?
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| I just wonder how much of this is related to the Denial of Service attack, and how much of it is actually just due to the somewhat inherent instabilities in eBay's system. I mean, i've read several stories about this, and they all quote eBay sources (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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