Denial of service

[Karl Larsen]

Andy Green wrote:
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>
>   
>> 08:36:54.556722 IP hpc-mirror.usc.edu.http > 192.168.0.2.36230: .
>> 332880:334340(1460) ack 1 win 108
>>     
>
> Well that's a Fedora mirror
>
>   
>> 08:36:54.559933 IP ftp1.nacs.uci.edu.ftp > 192.168.0.2.51487: P 0:19(19)
>> ack 1 win 1448 <nop,nop,timestamp 2065179405 11859719>
>>     
>
> and that's a Fedora mirror too..
>
>   
>> I am not sure what is being done, but it is being relayed by USC and
>> others.
>>     
>
> Is it possible there is some kind of process running that is banging on
> Fedora mirrors for some reason?
>
> Have a look in
>
> ps -Af
>
> if nothing comes to mind... is yum running or some other Friends Of Yum
> like pup or the Package Manager applet... "you have updates" warning
> applet or something like that?
>
> -Andy
>
>   
    Well Andy I had 17 Security Updates listed this morning so I tried 
to get them but it seemed to fail. I will turn off yumd and see if it 
stops. Then look for the problem.



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