[Imc-web] bandwidth hijacked

[Zachary C. Miller]

More on this...I would like to have banned the IP of the person who
uploaded the porn files in the first place but we didn't have IP
logging on at the time (I actually thought I did but I had it
misconfigured).

IP logging is now on. I am hoping that this person will upload some
more and we'll catch them in the act.

I have found that I can not possibly ban all the IPs of everyone who
is attempting to download this porn as they just keep coming. They are
all coming from a link on a particular norwegian porn blog.

These folks aren't sucking our bandwidth anymore because I've removed
the offending files but if new such files are uploaded we'll have to
deal with it. One of the files was "wmv" format and we do have
legitimate indymedia pieces uploaded in that format so I can't just
ban the format.

> I removed the offending files from the usermedia directory (but not
> their database entries).
> 
> I also disabled the serving of "asf" files. This is a legitimate video
> format but no one has ever uploaded one to our server except one of
> these two porn files.
> 
> I have banned the IPs of the hosts which were hammering us. 
> 
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Zachary C. Miller - @= - http://zach.chambana.net/
IMSA 1995 - UIUC 2000 - Just Another Leftist Muppet - Ya Basta!
 Social Justice, Community, Nonviolence, Decentralization, Feminism,
 Sustainability, Responsibility, Diversity, Democracy, Ecology