[Mailman-Users] Defending against DDOS style scanning

2016-06-18 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Gretchen R Beck writes: > We had a group of machines hit our mailman server hard last night > -- trying all the advertised lists and their corresponding URLS. > After shutting down and restarting the webserver, the attempts > stopped. This doesn't tell us enough to give useful advice, because

[Mailman-Users] Defending against DDOS style scanning

2016-06-17 Thread Gretchen R Beck
Hi Folks, We had a group of machines hit our mailman server hard last night -- trying all the advertised lists and their corresponding URLS. After shutting down and restarting the webserver, the attempts stopped. What (if anything) are folks doing to protect against such events? Thanks!