Mozdev Downed by Denial of Service Attack!

Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Sat Jul 05, 2003 3:31 pm

Mozillazine article

I was wanting to download some Mozilla add-ons, but I wasn't able to get into Mozdev. Now I know why.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Jul 05, 2003 4:27 pm

That's madning. What I find funny about DoS attacks is that they last so long. I used to get many on my server but I'd block the IPs it came from. But in my case it all came from about 2 IPs, some are millions of IPs so you can't do much, specially if it's not your own server, which from the article, I don't think it is.

I don't know why people do these things

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Sat Jul 05, 2003 8:12 pm

darn script kiddies. DDoS is turning into some kind of sadistic fad or something. They seem to be just about everywhere. Particualrly with torrent sites for some reason. Those sites go down just about daily, and get dropped from their hosts every other week.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Jul 05, 2003 8:52 pm

Yeah, DDos is becoming bad. I guess it's because it's so easy to do and yet is so damaging, but it's a temporarly damage, as rebooting the server to kill all the processes should work, once the attacks have stopped. But usually it's on for a long time so they can't do much while all these connections are coming.

I made the computer downstairs do a BSOD by DoSing apache one night as I was bored.

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wldkos · Post by **wldkos** » Sat Jul 05, 2003 10:06 pm

I have seemed to notice that hacking got "big" again. i thought it was cool when the linux community teamed up to take down SCO's website, but now it's just plain old.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Sun Jul 06, 2003 4:43 pm

Update

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Jul 06, 2003 5:05 pm

That's something new "new server". I had no idea a DDoS could damage a server?!? I thought it was only sending so many requests that it would crash, but never realized it could do hardware damage!

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Sun Jul 06, 2003 5:06 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: That's something new "new server". I had no idea a DDoS could damage a server?!? I thought it was only sending so many requests that it would crash, but never realized it could do hardware damage!

The new server has nothing to do with the attacks.

They were planning to buy a new one before the attacks and had just raised enough money.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Jul 06, 2003 5:58 pm

Oh I see...

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Mon Jul 07, 2003 12:42 pm

It's back up!

Full service hasn't been restored yet though. Since they have a newer OS and a faster server now, maybe it'll be faster!

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Jul 07, 2003 1:23 pm

Cool!

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