Block ping and traceroutes to increase security?

Hi, My host blocks pings and traceroutes in an attempt to protect against DDOS attacks. Whats the merits of this approach? Clearly the downsides are that it's a pain in the arse!! Dan Read all

setting up a multiple server load script

I'm not sure exactly what forum this belongs in, so if this is wrong, sorry and feel free to move. I'm trying to setup one page that will give me the server load averages of multiple servers. I didn't Read all

Six months of continuous dos and counting

This server has been under attack from these script kiddies for six months and they won't go away. It took a while of configurations, but the server's been stable for five months. (had to move from on Read all

updated apache.... server is fast!

I dont know if this is the cause (didnt really do accurate testing before hand), but i updated apache today, and my sites are loading really really fast. could this be a cause? J Read all

What will I need to have my on Linux based email facility?

Hello All, I am planning to built my own Linux based email system,a mail server in short.What will I need to make it? I am looking for qmail,vpopmail etc.What will be good choice? If I hosted a Web se Read all

New server - ns updated - nothing happens

Hey, I got a new server and changed ns1 and ns2 of my nameserver domain at Godadd to the new server IP's. When I do a nslookup (nslookup ns1.domain.com), then it show the IP of my new server (same wit Read all

Hard drive partition for CPANEl/WHM

Hi I want to install cpanel/WHM on my server (Fedore) I read about making partition for hard drive also I should create partition /dev/hda2 / /dev/hda1 /boot /dev/hda8 /home none /dev/shm /dev/hda7 /t Read all

MRTG and multiple IPs per device

server has: eth0 ip1 eth0:0 ip2 eth0:1 ip2 ... eth0:9 ip9 If I have cfgmaker create my mrtg.cfg it selects the last IP to use in its graphs for device eth0... I am using: cfgmaker --output=/etc/mrtg/m Read all

Odd FTP Issue

Since I moved into my University dorm connection, I have had many problems FTP'ing into my server. It's not that they have blocked FTP or anything...I can FTP into any other server just fine. To furth Read all

need help with mod-rewrite

I want to turn my dynamic URLS search engine friendly, so I would like to use mod-re write to turn the following URL : http://www.mysite.com/display.php?category=1&page=1 into something like: http://w Read all

Trojan on my server :O

I got this email today Hidden Pid detected! [pid 9920] hidden from ps: [yes] hidden from kernel: [yes] binary location: [/boot/l3mans/olpl] How do i find out who did this and how do i delete it? Read all

Microsoft SQL Server

I wonder if anybody has any idea of the sort of price people are charging for an instance of MSSQL server. Also the price per database. I am from the UK and was looking for the prices from companies i Read all

Help badly needed on possible DOS attack

Anybody out there that is very good at determining whether we are under a major DDOS attack. This would be a quick "paid" contract job if you could help us get our site back on its feet. We have exhau Read all

 

 

 

 

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