[lug] Did I get DOSed?

[Paul Hardiman]

How did you get a static IP address from AT&T?

Warren Sanders wrote:

> After getting notice that my family web server was not working, I 
> looked at the log files and noticed several incrementing maillog 
> messages starting at 00:45:41 Sunday the 4th:
> sendmail[919]: rejecting connections on daemon MTA: load average: 46
> sendmail[919]: runqueue: Skipping queue run -- load average too high
> rejecting connections on daemon MTA: load average: 50 (This was the 
> last of any activity for Sunday the 4th at 01:44:13).  Is this mail 
> server load or system load?  Did I get DOSed?
>
> In a quick fix effort, I just had the wife reboot the server.  I 
> thought my AT&T connection might have expired my IP but on the rebound 
> it had the same IP.
>
> So basically I lost all services to the server and it did respond to a 
> ping.  I tried nmap -O to see if it was still a Linux box but that 
> didn't even work.
>