On 2006/04/03 02:40, David B. wrote: > I even had all packets dropped that came from asia, south america and africa.
What's the point in this? If you want to drop packets from places where there might be attackers, you certainly need to include N.America and Europe on your list. > I don't mind rebuilding my development box from scratch because that's why > I had it on the net like that anyway, simply to see how long it would take > for someone to crash it. It took less than a month - that's not very good > from a default security viewpoint. You're not using a default system, though. You added at least mod_php and PostgreSQL (and presumably some software written in PHP). Was your httpd running in the default chroot btw, or was that layer of security removed for the sake of expediency? > I'm assuming of course that Apache is the problem, as there are no logs or Perhaps you might like to arrange off-system logging. > anyway to tell what happened, but the hard drive started to make an awful > screaching sound as the drive was apparently being forced to track the > heads back and forth very quickly. The drive is fine Are you sure about the drive being fine? I had an HD fail recently which made intermittent excessive accessing noises, including straight after the box was turned on. Not saying that this is likely to be the case for you (or not), but sometimes there can be more than one reason for a failure and it might not be the first one you think of. > Anyway, it would be nice if Apache 2 were available for 3.9 It is, but you get to build it yourself, and lose the security enhancements.
