__/ [ [H]omer ] on Tuesday 16 January 2007 15:18 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> We have just disconnected a guy whose LAN had 15000 connections with
>> 178GB. He is using Windows XP. Is it at all surprising that servers grind
>> to a halt and sometimes collapse under heavy load? This affects tens of
>> thousands of people. Anyway, I told him not to be alarmed. It's probably a
>> passive action, but things used to be easier when you could deal with the
>> criminal directly, not with victims.
>
> That beats my server :)
>
> ~]# i=0; while [ $i -lt 16 ]; do let i=i+1; echo -n "Hacking attempts on
> Jan $i = "; cat /etc/hosts.deny | sed -e "s/Jan\ \ /Jan\ /" | grep "Jan $i
> .*2007" | wc -l; done
>
> Hacking attempts on Jan 1 = 97
> Hacking attempts on Jan 2 = 123
> Hacking attempts on Jan 3 = 117
> Hacking attempts on Jan 4 = 201
> Hacking attempts on Jan 5 = 217
> Hacking attempts on Jan 6 = 122
> Hacking attempts on Jan 7 = 118
> Hacking attempts on Jan 8 = 154
> Hacking attempts on Jan 9 = 136
> Hacking attempts on Jan 10 = 137
> Hacking attempts on Jan 11 = 152
> Hacking attempts on Jan 12 = 564
> Hacking attempts on Jan 13 = 31
> Hacking attempts on Jan 14 = 133
> Hacking attempts on Jan 15 = 116
> Hacking attempts on Jan 16 = 98
>
> Nmap informs me most of these are Windows zombies.
About 4 years ago (1..2.. maybe just 3) Universal Studio filed some
complaint, so we had to suspend one guy's connection and fine him. He was
sharing files, so I had no sympathy. In this new case, on the other hand,
the guy went home to China, so apparently his computer was cracked and went
berserk. The network is being clogged up. As a matter of fact, many of the
clusters are now switched off during the holidays "for security reasons"
(zombies on the JANET multi-gigabit backbone). Why can't a PC just be? Why
must a connected computer be a possible hazard that disrupts daily
operations?
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~~ Best regards
Roy S. Schestowitz
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