Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Mar 2004 21:50:45 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: who is merlin.fit.vutbr.cz? |
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Hi!
> I can't tell if this is a DOS attack or someone with a REALLY slow net > connection. Whoever this is has been cloning the linux 2.6 (aka 2.5) > tree on bkbits so slowly that the tree is locked for days and can't > be updated. About once a day I go kill the clone because stracing it > shows it doing nothing.
Never explain with malice what can be explained by incompetence as well :-).
> Anyway, we've suffered more than enough bad press so before I > assume that this host is a rogue and filter them, does anyone know who > merlin.fit.vutbr.cz is? If they really have that slow of a connection > we'll burn a CD and Fedex it to them, nobody should suffer that much. > But if this is just a DOS, we'll nuke 'em.
vutbr.cz is university in czech republic; duno what merlin.fit means, perhaps its room at dormatory or something like that.
What kind of bandwidth do they use? You could also try to ping it and maybe finger/ telnet there to see what it is.
Pavel -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms
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