Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 15:07:14 +0100 (BST) From: Kiril Mitev <kiril@ideaglobal.com> To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Denial of service attack from "imagelock.com" Message-ID: <199905241407.PAA02162@idea.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.37.19990522171752.04638eb0@localhost> from "Brett Glass" at May 22, 99 05:24:16 pm
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> > At 11:29 AM 5/22/99 -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > >Did you even try the simple way: > > <SNIP> > > Yes, I did. Unfortunately, there's no way of telling whether the > company is what it says it is or why it would have attempted to > hit the server with so many rapid-fire requests from multiple IP > addresses. I've been trying to contact the company and hopefully > we will know soon. However, in the meantime, I'd STRONGLY recommend > that people firewall its IPs -- 209.133.111/24. At best, they're > terribly misguided; at worse, they're outright malicious. 3rd option: they/you/both have a slow line, and someone was in a hurry to suck your whole web site...by running several copies of a web crawler or something. i've had to slap people in the wrist for that before :-), since OUR firewall/proxy starts buckling under such a load.... just my tuppence Kiril > > --Brett Glass > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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