Re: Denial of service attack

["Brian T. Allen" <brian@purenetfx.com>]

******    message to minivend-users from "Brian T. Allen" <brian@purenetfx.com>     ******

Hey All,

    I have been getting the same thing from SOL, and I don't appreciate it.
The just don't play by the rules. They aren't playing with the other
children.  Maybe if 3,000 minivend users all sent them an email, and all of
their friends...

    They hit one of my cgi scripts 400 times in a row, every 3 seconds.  I
don't know of a solution.  You don't want to deny them all-together, it is
nice to be listed in directories and search engines, but not at that price.

    Here is the one that hit me:
spider-tq054.proxy.aol.com

Good Luck,
Brian
brian@purenetfx.com

> ******    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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