Re: Would a DOS on dovecot running under a VM cause host to crash?

2013-06-24 Thread Hugh Davenport
+1200, Hugh Davenport wrote: The attack lasted around 4 minutes, in which there was 1161 lines in the log for a single attacker ip, and no other similar logs previously. Would this be enough to kill not only the VM running dovecot, but the underlying host machine? Have you checked logs

Would a DOS on dovecot running under a VM cause host to crash?

2013-06-20 Thread Hugh Davenport
Hey All, I'm just wondering whether this is what caused my server to crash. Started last night in NZ land. Jun 20 19:22:11 elm dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (tried to use disallowed plaintext auth): user=, rip=attackerip, lip=10.0.0.3, session=0C8LzpDfZQDINsQC occasionally get Jun 20