My little box on Covad/XO DSL had only 25 Code Red hits last month.  This
month so far I have seen 663 hits.  I may have to create counter measures to
attack all the bastards that don't maintain their servers ;)

Tom Veldhouse
veldy at veldy.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Austad, Jay" <austad at marketwatch.com>
To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 1:05 AM
Subject: RE: [TCLUG] AT&T/Mediaone does it again?


> Yeah, CR2 is definitely growing.  Over 3 days we had around 17,000 CR2
hits,
> just in our Minneapolis data center.  If I get some time tomorrow, I'll
run
> a query and graph the attempts over the last few days to see how it's
> growing.
>
> Jay
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Tanner [mailto:tanner at real-time.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 11:46 PM
> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG] AT&T/Mediaone does it again?
>
> Quoting Steve Siegfried (sos at zjod.net):
> > Folks,
> >
> > I was wondering why my WWW hit monitors suddenly went to zero.  Then I
> > checked and found out why:  No hits.  When I logged into my backup ISP
and
> > tried "lynx http://zjod.net", I got, "Unable to contact remote host." I
> also
> > checked ftp, ssh, and telnet, which all worked.  Only http access wasn't
> > going through.
>
> I do agree with the measures they took. At 7pm CST today, Real Time had to
> do
> the same thing, because of the load it was putting on the routers. The
> packet
> storm was effecting all services at Real Time.
>
> I do -not- agree with how they went about it. They should have given you a
> heads
> up on what they are doing. I posted to all Real Time clients saying we
> needed to
> take this drastic measure to insure quality of service for everyone. Kind
of
> the
> few must suffer for the many.
>
> So, I disabled port 80 to all client networks. I then logged (and I'm
still
> logging) all the deny attempts.
>
> We are getting over 500 CR2 hits every 600 seconds on just 1 network
alone.
> I am
> now going through the data and punching holes into it to allow traffic to
> linux/apache servers.
>
>
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