The Perl CPAN Testers have been suffering issues accessing their sites, databases and mirrors. According to a posting on the CPAN Testers' blog, the CPAN Testers' server has been being aggressively scanned by "20-30 bots every few seconds" in what they call "a dedicated denial of service attack."
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Microsoft Windows Zombies Take Down Free Software Services Hosted on Amazon
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Bitbucket goes offline due to a distributed denial of service attack (botnets)
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How the Attacks on Sites Like Twitter Can Help Promote Free Software
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If anything good came out of the deluge of DDoS attacks, it is increased awareness of Free software benefits
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How To Defend slowloris DDoS With mod_qos (Apache2 On Debian [Lenny])
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mod_qos gives some fine-grained opportunities to scale the number of used connections and to defend an attack according to bandwidth limits. Unfortunately it is only available as source-package and there are many possible settings, wich might be hard to set up for this special case. So I provide the way that helped me.
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