by admin | Oct 3, 2014 | cPanel/WHM
When trying to run/restart the Pureftp service, do you get the following error ? pure-ftpd (/usr/sbin/pure-ftpd -O clf:/var/log/xferlog –daemonize -A -c50 -B – C8 -D -E -fftp -H -I15 -lextauth:/var/run/ftpd.sock -L2000:8 -m4 -p30000:35000 -s -S21 -U133:022 -u100...
by admin | Sep 18, 2014 | OpenSource
We have discussed about DDoS hitting Webservers in this post. It can also attack the DNS servers, which is often called as DNS Amplification Attacks. In Simple words, the attack can be explained as follows : Someone makes an inquiry to you, on how to reach a...
by admin | Sep 18, 2014 | Apache, Servers
What is a DDoS attack ? DDoS, short for Distributed Denial of Service, is a type of DOS attack where multiple compromised systems — which are usually infected with a Trojan (70% of the time)– are used to target a single system causing a Denial of Service (DoS) attack....
by admin | Sep 18, 2014 | DNS
Before getting to know what is an open resolver, you need to know what is recursion, ie recursive queries ! Suppose you have a DNS server configured and a local machine which uses your DNS server queries for a website. Imagine this query is a new one and its not in...
by admin | Sep 15, 2014 | cPanel/WHM, OpenSource
SpamAssassin is just a great tool to block the incoming spams to your server. However, you might just need some other tools in addition to SpamAssassin, if you feel lotta spams are making it past SA. Two of my suggestions from WHM are : 1. Enable the RBL option from...
