Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 1 Apr 2004 08:48:06 +0200 | | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | | Subject | Re: who is merlin.fit.vutbr.cz? |
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On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 05:08:29PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Folks, I need your help. > > 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.
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> 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.
.cz: Czech Republic .vutbr: Technical University of Brno .fit: Faculty of Information Technology merlin: a Linux server serving home directories and login accounts to students
So it's likely a student doing the 'bk clone'.
What's surprising is that merlin shouldn't have a slow network connection - quite the opposite - it's near the academic backbone of the Czech Republic (a 2.5 gbit/sec pipe).
But maybe something doesn't work correctly - some NAT or MTU problem stopping the communication ...
Or it's indeed an evil student.
The administrative contact for that machine is linux@fit.vutbr.cz.
I hope this helps.
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