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Posted to docs-dev@perl.apache.org by Per Einar Ellefsen <pe...@oslo.online.no> on 2002/09/25 19:40:47 UTC
Re: Cron
/home/perlwww/apache.org/modperl-docs/bin/site_build_index
At 19:35 25.09.2002, allan wrote:
>out of curiosity:
>at that exact time i was trying to reach apache.org which was not
>responding. it sounds stupid, but was this may be the cause ?
Hi Allan,
It seems like there was a slight problem with the server, maybe some
filesystem that was down or something. I'm re-running the spider now and
everything seems ok (but it's taking an aweful amount of time, but that
might be expected I guess).
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Per Einar Ellefsen
pereinar@oslo.online.no
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Re: Cron
/home/perlwww/apache.org/modperl-docs/bin/site_build_index
Posted by Bill Moseley <mo...@hank.org>.
At 07:57 PM 09/25/02 +0200, Eric Cholet wrote:
>Yes, looks like someone DoS'd search.apache.org/index.cgi, load went very
>high, which seems to have confused the OS enough to lose knowledge about
>/x2 where the web sites live. The machine was rebooted and things work
>again.
That's my script :-(.
Ask sent in mail about it about 5am PST today. It's not hard to cause a
DoS by hitting a plain CGI script. I'd like to move that script to
mod_perl with a very limited number of children and reverse proxy it. I'm
not sure if Brian wants to go that way or not. Having a CGI script as
/index.html is an easy thing to hit.
The script has timeout's but nothing long enough to prevent this from
happening.
>Pretty scary...
Scary that it could be an attack? I've seen the same thing when IE users
just click on off-line browsing....
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Bill Moseley
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Re: Cron
/home/perlwww/apache.org/modperl-docs/bin/site_build_index
Posted by Eric Cholet <ch...@logilune.com>.
--On Wednesday, September 25, 2002 19:40:47 +0200 Per Einar Ellefsen
<pe...@oslo.online.no> wrote:
> At 19:35 25.09.2002, allan wrote:
>> out of curiosity:
>> at that exact time i was trying to reach apache.org which was not
>> responding. it sounds stupid, but was this may be the cause ?
>
> Hi Allan,
>
> It seems like there was a slight problem with the server, maybe some
> filesystem that was down or something. I'm re-running the spider now and
> everything seems ok (but it's taking an aweful amount of time, but that
> might be expected I guess).
Yes, looks like someone DoS'd search.apache.org/index.cgi, load went very
high, which seems to have confused the OS enough to lose knowledge about
/x2 where the web sites live. The machine was rebooted and things work
again.
Pretty scary...
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Eric Cholet
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