Quoting Steve Siegfried (sos at zjod.net): > Folks, > > I was wondering why my WWW hit monitors suddenly went to zero. Then I > checked and found out why: No hits. When I logged into my backup ISP and > tried "lynx http://zjod.net", I got, "Unable to contact remote host." I also > checked ftp, ssh, and telnet, which all worked. Only http access wasn't > going through. I do agree with the measures they took. At 7pm CST today, Real Time had to do the same thing, because of the load it was putting on the routers. The packet storm was effecting all services at Real Time. I do -not- agree with how they went about it. They should have given you a heads up on what they are doing. I posted to all Real Time clients saying we needed to take this drastic measure to insure quality of service for everyone. Kind of the few must suffer for the many. So, I disabled port 80 to all client networks. I then logged (and I'm still logging) all the deny attempts. We are getting over 500 CR2 hits every 600 seconds on just 1 network alone. I am now going through the data and punching holes into it to allow traffic to linux/apache servers. -- Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9