[Xitami] :: denial of service ::

[Alex Barna]

Hi Ron,

Ron Ackerman wrote:
> 
> I get lockups almost daily, just sitting there running the webserver. I even
> bought a auto rebooter for when it stops responding for 3 minutes it will
> reboot the machine. I've wondered if it might be a hardware problem and I
> think you answered that for me as YES! I suspect I may have a bad memory
> module but had to rule out software TCP/IP and Xitami hits.
>
> Ask a hardware guy and he will say it's a software problem, ask a software
> guy and he will say it's a hardware problem. Who's corret???
> 
> Ron

Belarc Advisor can probably answer your hardware vs. software question.
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

I have been both a hardware & software guy since the late 70's & I learned with
a M$ OS it is best to look at software conflicts first & then look for hardware
problems.

Xitami will try to serve up all page requests & the only time it will cause a
problem is if it tries to serve more pages at a time than the OS can handle. 

If you are having crashes with just Xitami running make sure windows isn't
running something else in the background & decrease the number of connections
Xitami will serve.

Alex

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xitami-admin@lists.xitami.org
> [mailto:xitami-admin@lists.xitami.org]On Behalf Of Alex Barna
> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 12:07 PM
> To: xitami@lists.xitami.org
> Subject: Re: [Xitami] :: denial of service ::
> 
> 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,