Re: [GM-core] GraphicsMagick.org temporarily down
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From: Bob F. <bfr...@si...> - 2009-08-10 21:27:43
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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 bfr...@si..., http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ |