Subj : Re: Weird Activity on BBS
To   : Cowboy0629
From : Bucko
Date : Fri Apr 22 2022 07:53 pm

On 22 Apr 2022, Cowboy0629 said the following...
 
 Co> Hello all
 Co> 
 Co> Has anyone seen this happen before? filled All NODES and then by the
 Co> looks of it tried for more
 Co> 
 Co> >Connect on slot 1/5 (54.221.90.37)
 Co> 1 - Hostname ec2-54-221-80-37.compute-1.amazonaws.com
 Co> 1 - Creating terminal process
 Co> 
 Co> this continued on all with different IP addresses
 Co> 


Oh yea, you got hit with a bot attack.. Mystic is good at blocking IP's that do this, I wonder why it did not in your case though.. I had a bot attack not so long ago on my CNet Amiga BBS where a bot started attacking me at 1am, and when I caught up to it at 8am it had connected over 2000 times! I blocked the IP and it stopped it, but when I checked my other boards my C64 Image board was crashed and it showed non stop connections, my Enigma, Synchro and Mystic boards were still humming along.. If you are running Linux look into fail2ban, it should help against bot attacks, I am just starting to use it now so I can't offer much in the way of help with it though. I am hoping it stops what I am fearing are attacks on my Commodore board..

Al

.... Computers all wait at the same speed!

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