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RE: Denial of service attack
****** message to minivend-users from "Russ" <russ@khouse.org> ******
Can you give more information on the 'other options' you mentioned?
Thank you
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
[mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Mr. Christopher
F. Miller
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 1999 4:58 AM
To: minivend-users@minivend.com
Subject: Re: Denial of service attack
****** message to minivend-users from "Mr. Christopher F. Miller"
<cfm@maine.com> ******
On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 02:57:22AM -0400, Ace Kumar wrote:
> ****** message to minivend-users from Ace Kumar <ace@digiknow.com>
******
>
> On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, F.M. Taylor wrote:
>
> If the machines you are running on are running apache (or another NCSA) or
> netscape enterprise, and you are allowed to make your own .htaccess or
> .nsconfig files (respectively), you can do something like this (in
> .htaccess format):
If you don't have access to that there are several other options
to redirect the robot. You can do it with the HTTP server, parsed
pages, javascript, or even redirects from within minivend itself.
>
> > > 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?
--
Christopher F. Miller, Publisher cfm@maine.com
MaineStreet Communications, Inc 208 Portland Road, Gray, ME 04039
1.207.657.5078 http://www.maine.com/
Database publishing, electronic commerce, office and internet integration.
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