Hello, MIKE.

Friday February 11 2011 at 15:44, you wrote to me:

 MR> I know this is a bit old, but welcome to the club.. Happens a lot to
 MR> me. Funny thing, it can really affect the system if You are
 MR> getting hammered. One time It brought my WC system to a crawl. I had
 MR> to go back to synchronet as it somehow could handle the load until
 MR> things got back
 MR> to normal. Wildcat just buried itself and bogged down.

I stopped the attacks cold by setting up a dedicated pfSense box and
setting up the "Country Block" package.  I'm blocking 23
countries entirely right now and while the problem hasn't gone 100% away,
98% of the problem has stopped completely.  I'm glad I took the time to fix
that.  pfSense with Country Block really did the trick.  It takes a little
bit to fine-tune things, but once you get it working, it's peace of mind.

Later,
Sean

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