The recent server problems where the sniper server was going up and down was due to a "stack smashing" attack on the server. Basically someone or group of people were attempting to bring down the server by hammering the ftp server on the box with some bad code.
I am going to look at the logs further and see if I can figure out who was doing it.
The obvious fix for this is to no longer leave the ftp server running all the time. As such it will be brought up when needed and quit when not needed. This is a good policy anyway.
T
Thanks Tommy. 😉
Grasshopper.
Traceable IP's of the "Stack smashers"???
Or was it the bad part?
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