Re: [cobalt-users] error log emergency

["Mike Fritsch" <mfritsch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe you can put his IP into the hosts.deny file.

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Theodore Jones" <theoj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 12:04 AM
Subject: [cobalt-users] error log emergency


> Hello,
>
> I recently caught a hacker trying to hack a password protected site on my
> 3i unit.   I was able to deny him/her service vi a deny line in the
> .htacces file of the protected directory.   This worked fine and I can see
> the malicious person being denied just keeps on churning hits at me even
> though they're being denied.  If this keeps up it will rapidly make my
> error log grow huge and possibly crash my machine (the intent?).
>
> How can you make the error logging just ignore this malciious IP, or just
> pass them off to an error message or some null thing so that no entries to
> me error log are incurred?
>
> Any help would be much appreciated!,
>
> ~ Theo
>
>
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