Re: GraphicsMagick.org temporarily down

On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> I have temporarily shut the GraphicsMagick.org web server down due to
> botnet attack.  The ftp server is still available.  I am not sure why
> a free software site would be attacked but clearly a huge number of
> computers are involved, sending many hundreds of requests per minute
> to my site. Hopefully the herders will get bored with my site and move
> on soon.

It is possible that the supposed attack is actually the result of a 
huge number of hits due to a popular blog/news posting.  I found this 
recent discussion thread:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/99aq3/imagemagick_uses_convoluted_and_arcane_code_paths//

Virtually all of the page requests are to the benchmarks.html file. 
The site is back up now.  Requests continue but at a slower rate.

Bob
--
Bob Friesenhahn
[email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day 
trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on 
what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with 
Crystal Reports now.  http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july