Re: Why would someone DoS a free-lance writer?

From: Jim Starke (jstarkeat_private)
Date: Sat Jun 30 2001 - 12:25:35 PDT

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    Sara Brigid Gaffney wrote:
    > 
    > I had my packet sniffer running on this solitary Windows PC but I
    > wasn't on the net.  Suddenly I noticed I was getting hit multiple
    > times a second.  They were coming from a range of sources but
    > targeted one port, 6346.
    
    Possibly the previous person who had the IP Address that you were
    assigned when you connected to your ISP was running Gnutella. It wasn't
    a DoS but just the fallout of other computers thinking that you were
    sharing files because they didn't know the previous user disconnected.
    I'm presuming that you are assigned a dynamic ip address by your ISP.
    
    Normally disconnecting and dialing back into your ISP will fix the
    problem because it will assign you a new ip address.
    
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