____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Thursday 06 March 2008 21:47 : \____
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Tony Drudge
> <tonydrudge@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Thu, 6 Mar 2008 16:20:31 -0500
> <47d05497$0$26076$88260bb3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Luckily my firewall is blocking the attacks from 84.18.207.65 but is there
>> anything else that I can do?
>>
>> tia,
>> - Tony D.
>>
>
> Good question, and you're way off the beaten path for
> technical assistance. I'll do what little I can...
>
> Best I can do is note that a reverse DNS lookup suggests
> that it's banana.catalyst2.com (a forward DNS lookup
> confirms this); Catalyst2 appears to be a web hosting
> site. You might contact them and tell them you're being
> inundated.
>
> (Yes, there's an apple.catalyst2.com. It uses IIS6.
> Go fig.
> Yes, there's an apricot.catalyst2.com, but it's
> not taking requests.
> Yes, there's a fig.catalyst2.com, which responds RedHat/Apache.
> Fruity mix they've got there.)
>
> Banana appears to be a *Linux* site; banana.catalyst2.com
> is showing a "Congratulations, Apache is working" page as
> of this moment.
>
> As for your firewall blocking attacks from this
> site...let's just say that even though your firewall is
> blocking the attacks, there's only so much it can do as
> the attacks are sucking bandwidth from your uplinks.
Microsoft shills must be really worried if it start harassing my Web host using
lies.
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