[COLUG] FTP attacks

[Duane]

Steve Roggenkamp wrote:

> It looks like these have been going on since late April, but it does not 
> appear that any attempts have been successful.  I'm still analyzing the 
> logs.

It does nasty things to proftpd and for some reason the params designed 
to stop this crap doesn't work and I resorted to using monit to kill 
proftpd when the CPU got too high etc...

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