Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 00:41:10 +0200 From: Marco Pizzi <marcolin@net-one.it> To: "Chris" <cconel@aussie.org> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Net abuse/DOS with Teleport Pro ? Message-ID: <4.1.19990605002350.0428cd30@pop-sa.net-one.it> In-Reply-To: <199906041843.EAA08014@mail.aussie.org>
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>During two periods over two days, a person using a agent that identified >itself as 'Teleport Pro/1.26' made over ---THIRTY THOUSAND--- hits on my web >server (at a rate of roughly one per second), repeatedly asking for the same >(or similar) rubbish URL, as such ... >[cut] >I have not used this software and am unaware of its abilities Teleport Pro is a program like wget. Its main purpose is to download web-sites. I know that is limit is that it can launch up to 10 simultaneously thread. Teleport has many netiquette oriented options. Moreover it can impersonate another program, so you were lucky: the user didn't change this option.. Let me know if you want more information. -- Marco Pizzi. (marcolin) marcolin@net-one.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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