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Re: [cobalt-users] Problems With FTP shutting down
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Problems With FTP shutting down
- From: "Dave" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun Sep 2 13:40:24 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> I have a RaQ2 that this happens to occassionally. Almost everytime this
> happens, I can find corresponding entries in the /var/log/messages where
> I've been hit by mega-multiple instances of someone running all my IPs
> through their auto anonymous FTP login program. They hit so hard and fast
> that FTP goes down and the error generated is for example:
>
> Aug 30 17:10:47 XXXX inetd[16259]: ftp/tcp server failing (looping),
> service terminated
Hey that's it! :) Not that it's a good thing, but at least I know now. Is
there any way of blocking this, so that it's not happening all the time So
far I've pinned down three different IP addresses..... but not sure what I
can do. Thanks for the tip on the logs Diana!