Re: [Bacula-devel] bacula.org offline?

[Marc S. <ma...@sc...>]

Am Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2012, 08:49:05 schrieb Kern Sibbald:
> Hello Dan,
> 
> Thanks for the report.  I shutdown Apache last night for about
> 6 hours because someone was saturating the CPU with some
> cgi requests.  Taking  Apache down for about 5 minutes didn't work,
> so I shut it down longer, and the problem "seems" to have gone
> away.

Hint:
Next time maybe you could use iptables to block that IP instead of shutting 
down the whole service ;)

iptables -I INPUT -s <source ip> -j DROP

Using the recent module of iptables you can even automatically unblock that IP 
after a defined time.

-Marc
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