I know we've had our difficulties this morning...

Post #113,471 by bepatient 8/11/03 12:19:32 PM Reply	I know we've had our difficulties this morning... ..but once the boards came back...jabber went away for me. I bow in humility before the great admins...but I'm working from home for once...and I can participate while most are available...and what happens...the site goes down... Oh the humanity :) If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #113,473 by admin 8/11/03 12:46:06 PM Reply	Recent outage: Someone attempted to crack the machine this morning, using both an OpenSSH hack and a DoS-style crash attack against Apache. No one got in, and Greg is working on the post-mortem. The Jabber daemon issues are unrelated; Greg is working on that as well. Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #113,478 by bepatient 8/11/03 2:11:49 PM Reply	Someone tried a brute force hack, eh? They gotta do better than that to get past our crack staff :-) If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #113,480 by orion 8/11/03 2:21:28 PM Reply	Sounds like Script Kiddies only their scripts are out of date, and they weren't too good at hiding their tracks. Go get them!
Post #113,490 by admin 8/11/03 4:09:55 PM Reply	Not as such. High traffic can cause a particular kind of crash, apparently. They resorted to the Apache attack after the openSSH attack failed. Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #113,508 by folkert 8/11/03 6:48:48 PM 8/11/03 7:12:59 PM Reply	Well, Well, Well... Someone tried to Buffer-Overflow on OpenSSH. because of the privilege seperation... it failed. Apache had a bug that would segfault when a certain number of connections would be reached... sorry Debian fixed that 6 months ago. Shoot... Forgot to say Jabber is backup... Hand recompile of all the shared objects was in order. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] You look like a million paces tonight. Edited by folkert Aug. 11, 2003, 07:12:59 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #113,511 by Ashton 8/11/03 7:04:16 PM 8/11/03 7:05:55 PM Reply	You da Man For us dilettantes.. it's reassuring that Someone has a handle / lever long enough to pry-out the termites when their wings fall off. Now if you were as obsessed as a certain umm SpinRite author.. you could infiltrate, Message and Diss the slimy little water rats, er maybe even unLeash something really Interesting on Their toy box [?] Just a ravenous thought, in the Spirit of All War All the Time '04 [Our Platform for Reelection] Y'know? Ashton Edit: Apologies! for not relinking to the Screw Script Kiddies forum {sigh} No excuse, Sir Edited by Ashton Aug. 11, 2003, 07:05:55 PM EDT Expand All History

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