RFC about apparent DoS attack on V4L list the other night

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Fri Mar 30 18:14:37 UTC 2007


On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:48:31 +0200
Nigel Henry <cave.dnb at tiscali.fr> wrote:

> Anyone here, also on the v4l list. The other night it appeared it was under 
> attack for some time, then everything stopped. No more mail. A couple of 
> emails popped into the v4l box the next day, but since then absoulutely 
> nothing.

The video4linux list got into a loop with some kind of misconfigured
site. The local admins shut the list down when this happened and I don't
know if they've yet managed to isolate the loop and restart it.

Alan




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