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[ale] for those who like numbers
- Subject: [ale] for those who like numbers
- From: allen at ua.edu (Beddingfield, Allen)
- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 19:03:43 +0000
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We've had to start slowly implementing fail2ban on our web servers here at UA. It seems that we are a favorite target of some people in Vietnam...
Allen B.
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Allen Beddingfield
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The University of Alabama
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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of Jim Kinney [jim.kinney at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2014 12:53 PM
To: James Sumners
Cc: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] for those who like numbers
fail2ban is now behind it. the banned IP list is growing at about 3 per minute.
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 1:49 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com<mailto:james.sumners at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hmm, time to stop using httpd? Or at least shove fail2ban behind it?
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com<mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
uptime
12:50:49 up 13 days, 17:17, 1 user, load average: 166.20, 173.48, 176.20
yeah. _that's_ why the ale server was slow! it was MINUTES between establishing ssh protocol version 2 and communicating the allowed encryption protocols. Seems httpd was under attack and had clogged itself.
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James P. Kinney III
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/