[Xitami] :: denial of service ::

[Alex Barna]

Hi Merilene,

"Merilene M. Murphy" wrote:
> 
> HELP HELP HELP
> 
> recently, i don't know why either, i've been receiving hits to my
> xitami server and it seems for the purpose
> of crashing it. i mean these hits are
> coming in by the second. usually at hit 861, service will freeze
> win98se sith blue screen. i am using xitami v 2.4d9 on win98se (don't
> laugh).

I ran the same combination for 4 years with no major problems. Never had a blue
screen caused by Xitami even with many attacks. I often got thousands of hits a
day on that system. :)

Look in the log folder C:\Xitami\Logs  You will find ac------.log & an
er------.log.  ------ being the date. These files can be opened with notepad &
will tell you what is causing the problem. 

The log file should show if there were any dos requests.
The error file should tell you what happened at that time.

IMO, the win98se crash could have been caused by to many users at one time for
your system to handle. I believe the default number of users for that version of
Xitami is 10 & that may be to many for your system. Try resetting defaults.cfg 
[Server]
    Limit = "10"  to 5 & see if you still have problems

> i am wondering has anyone figured out a script that will
> reset xitami hits automatically, to counter the malicious hits coming
> through?

The number of hits doesn't make any difference. The problem is when there are to
many people trying to get into your computer at the same time.
 
> [p.s. - i have downloaded 2.5c2 from xitami.com but did not see the
> install file. i'm so busy on other projects, i can't get it to work
> right now.]

Just unzip it to a new folder in C:\Xitami252 & copy the existing website folder
the new folder. When you are sure you have everything working you can remove the
old version.
 
Alex,