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Crack LinuxPPC Contest Is Over

Posted by Roblimo on

BlueVelvet writes "The crack.linuxppc.org contest is over. Due to a waste of bandwith, illegal activities, and other reasons." Get the full story here. Seems some people were trying to crack other machines on their ISP. The folks at LinuxPPC say that if you send in a workable method to get into one configured like theirs, you can still win, but please stop eating up their ISP's bandwidth with crack attempts now, okay?

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  1. Re:W2k? ...from the W2K status page... by Sun+Tzu · · Score: 3

    8/12/99 Events

    12:00 We are still trying to find the right configuration to handle the combination of legitimate connection requests and the flood of attack packets. The new TCPIP stack has a couple of different configuration values that affect how it responds. Yes, we will be publishing exactly how this server is configured.

    8:00 The server crashed again this morning. In the same part of the TCPIP stack as before. The TCPIP stack is still having difficulty with a prolonged attack. We are going to try some different configurations and see if we can bump up the connection rate.

    Configuration
    500MHz Pentium III with 256mb of RAM.

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