From owner-freebsd-security Sat Jun 5 5:17:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from baerenklau.de.freebsd.org (baerenklau.de.freebsd.org [195.185.195.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BE2814FF0 for ; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 05:17:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from w@panke.de.freebsd.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by baerenklau.de.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id OAA24450; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 14:16:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from w@panke.de.freebsd.org) Received: (from w@localhost) by paula.panke.de.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.8.8) id NAA02480; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 13:45:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from w) Message-ID: <19990605134502.43573@panke.de.freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 13:45:02 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider To: Marco Pizzi , Chris Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Net abuse/DOS with Teleport Pro ? References: <199906041843.EAA08014@mail.aussie.org> <4.1.19990605002350.0428cd30@pop-sa.net-one.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990605002350.0428cd30@pop-sa.net-one.it>; from Marco Pizzi on Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 12:41:10AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 1999-06-05 00:41:10 +0200, Marco Pizzi wrote: > >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. like ignoring the /robots.txt file ;-(( Teleport is blacklisted for /cgi/ at www.freebsd.org Wolfram > 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. -- Wolfram Schneider http://wolfram.schneider.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message