Re5: iTools and QuickDNS Pro 3.5

Howdy:

On 08/10/2001 00:38 USA PT (-0800), cfaris@xxxxxxxxxxx ( charles ), 
wrote...

>The worm is a memory resident Virus. Within 1 month it has change 
>(probably by
>the vast number of server it has attacked) from an occassional hit from 
>one IP
>to multiple hits from multiple IP's at a single moment.
>
>Theoretically if it is allowed to grow it will be able to inendate a very
>large chunk of memory in a rather short period of time.
>
>I am going to see if I can write a crontab that will detect a flood on memory
>and automatically either reboot or flush memory to avoid crashes.
   I'm not sure I understand how a virus that infects Windows servers can 
have an effect on, or be memory resident in, memory on our PowerPC iTools 
CPUs?

   Possibly what is happening is that the larger number of WEB queries to 
your CPU is spawning more Apache response processes than your current 
memory size can handle.

   This could happen under any circumstance where you got more hits per 
period than you anticipated, and the best solution would be to add more 
memory - it's really, really cheap now.  The more memory you can give a 
Unix box, the better!

  At one point earlier this week our server ( OSXS 1.x/iTools 5.x ) was 
taking an average of a worm "hit" a minute for over four hours ( that's 
all I checked for ).  Our B&W G3/400 has 512mB of memory now, up from 
256mB a few weeks ago.

Glenn

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