Re: Is there anybody out there?

"E. M. Recio" <[email protected]> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:24:54 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.network.nocat
Organization http://www.polywog.org
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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I've ended up restarting the gateway once a day, and that seemed to do
the trick. I'll keep apprised for any "tweaks" :)

Schuyler Erle wrote:

>> I am trying to track down how I am seeing these computers that have "broken"
>> through the gateway, and am often seeing numerous "attacks" by various
>> update services ... Symantec, MacAfee, etc. ... Where they are hammering the
>> gateway with requests over and over for long periods.
> 
> That was it precisely. It makes the gateway fall over. I think that
> iptables supports some kind of rate limiting that might be useful here.

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Thanks,
E. Recio

MAC user's dynamic debugging list evaluator?  Never heard of that.

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