[SGVLUG] Fun of running a Website.

[Matthew Gallizzi]

Tom,

Nah, it wasn't in regards to the java-based IRC. The reason it doesn't work
for you is more than likely because your work network doesn't allow outgoing
traffic on port 6667. Try logging in from home, maybe. A few of us have
tested and it works.

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There is the ad if you want to go to Frys. Office Depot will price match it.



On 8/16/06, Emerson, Tom <Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message----- Of Michael Proctor-Smith
> >
> > Yes The sgvlug site is down. I took it down because of an
> > attack. Well at least we got crawled by msn/yahoo/and someone
> > at texas A&M in the last three days(I was reading the logs).
>
> Ummm... Crawling isn't an "attack" (that I know of) -- not honoring
> robots.txt, however, might be an actionable offense (umm, you HAVE setup
> an appropriate robots.txt file, haven't you?)
>
> Msn, yahoo, google, and others will generally be grabbing/caching pages
> for their search engines -- this is "a good thing" (right, Chris?)
> unless there is a loop (and even if there was) these spiders shouldn't
> be consuming huge amounts of bandwidth as they should hit each page and
> move on.  I don't think they bother with images (well, save for google
> for their google images search page -- do the others do the same now?)
>
> That leaves the Texas A&M site -- could be someone did a wget?  Is there
> any indication of attempts to exploit mambo/joomla?
>
> For that matter, didn't Matthew G. install a java-based IRC client?
> Could that have had "a side effect"?  (maybe that's why I couldn't
> connect?)  Are we sure it's been configured correctly?
>
>


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Matthew Gallizzi
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