From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 28 22:10:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA00131 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 22:10:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from scanner.worldgate.com (scanner.worldgate.com [198.161.84.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA00125 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 22:10:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from znep.com (uucp@localhost) by scanner.worldgate.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with UUCP id XAA03857; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 23:10:29 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost (marcs@localhost) by alive.ampr.ab.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA25577; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 23:02:11 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 23:02:10 -0700 (MST) From: Marc Slemko X-Sender: marcs@alive.ampr.ab.ca To: Rick Gray cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hacker solution In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19961028161211.00687244@nwpros.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.