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Re: Denial of service attack
****** message to minivend-users from "F.M. Taylor" <root@syrinx.jeffnet.org> ******
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, kenshin wrote:
> Subject: Denial of service attack
>
> ****** message to minivend-users from "kenshin" <kenshin@planetanime.com> ******
>
> Hello everyone, we are currently having a problem with a type of denial of
> service attack. Apparently someone has been hitting our site with a
> malicious robot (it doesn't check our robots.txt file) and our ISP has been
> shutting down our site b/c we have been using over 90% of the CPU time on
> our server. I've set RobotLimit to 3 but I don't have ipfwadm to lockout
> the offender. Is this something i can run and install as a user (not as
> root) and if so where do i get it? Is there something else i can do? Has
> anyone else run into a similar problem yet?
>
As a users, not much you can do that would not get you in deeper with your
ISP. (reverse floods, etc.) The most effective thin I have found is to
Bribe the sysadmin, don't call the office and talk to the suits, they
don't care. Get the guy that actually runs the machines. Buy him beer,
pizza, soda, hookers, whatever. Be cheaper than losing business.
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