Anssi Johansson <centos at miuku.net> wrote: > 6.8.2014 1.59, Paul Stewart kirjoitti: > > Hi there… > > > > Today, we started getting hit with DDOS attacks specifically against our > > CentOS mirror. Has anyone else seen this behavior before? > > > > These are TCP SYN and TCP RST misuse type attacks. > > I don't run a mirror myself, but please note that what you're seeing > might be simply yum-plugin-fastestmirror doing what's it's supposed to > do. yum-plugin-fastestmirror determines the closest mirror by opening a > TCP connection to each mirror and then closing the connection > immediately. The time spent is measured, and the fastest mirror as > determined by this process gets selected. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror R q