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Date:      Wed, 4 Nov 1998 17:39:51 +0300
From:      "Mikhail A. Sokolov" <mishania@demos.net>
To:        dg@root.com
Cc:        "Mikhail A. Sokolov" <mishania@demos.net>, freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mirroring of ftp.freebsd.org (wcarchive.cdrom.com)
Message-ID:  <19981104173951.09434@demos.su>
In-Reply-To: <199811041416.GAA29296@implode.root.com>; from David Greenman <dg@root.com> on Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 06:16:50AM -0800
References:  <19981104170747.40886@demos.su> <199811041416.GAA29296@implode.root.com>

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On Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 06:16:50AM -0800, David Greenman wrote:
# >Very unpleasant attitude towards mirrors. Even worse than Microsoft's, you
# > know.
# 
#    In what way is it unpleasant? Abusive mirrors are a form of denial of
# service attack and I would remiss in my responsibilites if I didn't take
# action to stop it.

People are either mirroring ftp.freebsd.org, or they do DoS attack trying
to abuse ftpd. In the first case, the reminder to behave is offending, in 
the second it's useless. If you once see somebody is abusing, you will
kill/close the access for the machine [by default], since it's normal
internet service which is being held by/with those unspoken laws to 
close access in cases of offence. 

# -DG
# 
# David Greenman
# Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

-- 
-mishania

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