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Re: News DoS using sendsys


From: avk () JET MSK SU (Andrew V. Kovalev)
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 14:25:12 +0400


Russ Allbery wrote:

Our newsserver (INN) all of a sudden gets several 100 'sendsys' requests
per day. The addresses of the people requesting the sendsys seem to be

Just today, the same folks switched to using newgroups.  Unfortunately,

Right now I'm receiving "version"... Machine running INN has a hundred of
/bin/sh's running... Aaarghh...


                                avk

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