[tech] hydra

[Duncan Sargeant]

James Andrewartha wrote on Thu August 30, at 16:05 +0800:
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, James Andrewartha wrote:
> 
> > Hydra has been coming up with "ip_conntrack: maximum limit of 1024 entries
> > exceeded" all day. I tried quadrupling the maximum, but they were all used
> > up in about 5 seconds. I couldn't find any reason why it was doing this,
> > so I've put it down to a kernel bug and compiled a new kernel
> > (2.4.9-ac3). I am just about to install the new kernel and reboot hydra.
> 
> Well, that didn't fix the problem. It might be caused by someone flooding,
> but Grahame had a look and couldn't see anything unusual
> happening. Anybody got any ideas?

Bryden was running a DNS bomb.

Bryden - stop it or we will tell on you.

,dunc