[lug] Did I get DOSed?

[Warren Sanders]

Not; it's dhcp.  Just hasn't changed since I got the account.  I had a 
previous account as well before the fiasco and kept the same IP there 
too.  It's a risk but so far no hastle.

Paul Hardiman wrote:

> 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.
>>
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Warren Sanders
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