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Date:      Mon, 28 Oct 1996 23:02:10 -0700 (MST)
From:      Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
To:        Rick Gray <rickg@nwpros.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Hacker solution
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.961028230054.23014H-100000@alive.ampr.ab.ca>
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19961028161211.00687244@nwpros.com>

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On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Rick Gray wrote:

> Now I know its sounded strange but somehow while the hackers were logged
> into FTP, no one else could use FTP. Everyone was getting permission denied
> messages. After I deleted the file, FTP started working just fine. 

"permission denied" messages can cover a lot.

However, if you are running something like wu-ftpd then there are limits
that can be set on the number of simultaneous connections.  If there were
a bunch of people trying to download the pirated file, that limit may have
been reached.




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