See if your ISP or Hosting Service can do some blocking upstream. It's worked for me in the past. If they can't, you may want to write a quick cron job to filter your logs. That approach sucks due to the extra work to cordinate it with log rotation. Talk to your ISP first.
Bryn ----- Original Message ----- Subject: [xmail] 110% off topic Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 12:40:57 -0800 From: "Mike Harrington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sorry guys, this is COMPLETELY off topic. Does anyone know if there are any counter measures to a denial of service attack? Three websites that I manage are the target of a new strain of the bagle virus which attempts to download a bogus image from the website. The server can handle the traffic (so far) but the log files are growing at an insane rate which will fill up the hard drives in a matter of days. Additionally, the virus is also trying to brute force its way onto the server by guessing usernames / passwords. I'm really sorry for being so far off topic, but I've completely used up my ideas of who to ask for help. -Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
