fantasma
11-30-2000, 01:53 PM
Hey All-
Got an email from my boss last Fri. Said our isp received an email from the PSINet UK Internet Abuse Team stating that they had a complaint from a site in England. The log files they sent to PSINet showed one of our Sun machines sending an html query to their site once every 2 minutes for a total of 41,000 times. They called this a denial of service attack. Once every 2 mins. doesn't seem threatening but if done in the right way, could have been. My boss doesn't know anything about Unix, so he literally just pulled the cord out of the wall (ouch).
Turns out the site in question has a splash page that redirects the browser to the moved site. The JScript in the site code only ids and redirects IE, Netscape and Opera. If your using say, Hot Java, the browser hangs and just keeps hitting over and over again.
After I found this out, I was able to convince my boss to plug me back in. Since we are primarily a MS shop, the research saved me from having to flounder with NT for the rest of my days here.
-Fan
Got an email from my boss last Fri. Said our isp received an email from the PSINet UK Internet Abuse Team stating that they had a complaint from a site in England. The log files they sent to PSINet showed one of our Sun machines sending an html query to their site once every 2 minutes for a total of 41,000 times. They called this a denial of service attack. Once every 2 mins. doesn't seem threatening but if done in the right way, could have been. My boss doesn't know anything about Unix, so he literally just pulled the cord out of the wall (ouch).
Turns out the site in question has a splash page that redirects the browser to the moved site. The JScript in the site code only ids and redirects IE, Netscape and Opera. If your using say, Hot Java, the browser hangs and just keeps hitting over and over again.
After I found this out, I was able to convince my boss to plug me back in. Since we are primarily a MS shop, the research saved me from having to flounder with NT for the rest of my days here.
-Fan