[plug] Traffic jump

[John Summerfield]

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> I have a server that mainly just does Web hosting and a couple of
> permanent connections.  Over the past few days the traffic it is
> pulling has gone through the roof.  I have ipacsum set up to monitor
> the main kinds of traffic that I get - mail, Web - and they are not
> showing any major deviations from the norm.  The two permanent
> connections are not pulling anything more than normal through their
> modem links.  I don't have an open mail or proxy server.  I had a look
> through my daemon.log and couldn't see any other services such as FTP
> with a large increase in incoming traffic.
> 
> Does anyone have any hints on where else I could look to find where
> the jump in traffic has come from?  Thanks.
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If you've not done so already, time to batten down the hatches and 
firewall (with ipchains) to block each and every service you don't intend 
to offer.


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John Summerfield
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