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Subject: Re: My "Support for SSDF" page... information

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 08:49:20 09/09/04

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On September 09, 2004 at 08:45:22, Volker Pittlik wrote:

>On September 08, 2004 at 22:27:23, Peter Skinner wrote:
>
>>Hello all,
>>
>>Yesterday I removed a message from the board that was quite a derogatory post
>>against the SSDF and the users that were posting support.
>>
>>Since then the server has been under a d.o.s attack. Unfortunately as the
>>"guestbook" I used to allow users to post messages connects to a mysql database
>>it is being flooded.
>>
>>With that the main site is down as nothing can connect to the mysql on the
>>server.
>>
>>I can not even gain access to my admin panel as there are to many connection
>>already to the server.
>
>Any chance to get the attacker? That is not a boyish prank IMO.
>
>Volker

No chance at all. There were literally hundreds of random ip's hitting the
server at all times.

The attack finally stopped at 2am MST.

Peter



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