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Kung Fu television series legend David Carradine died Wednesday June 3, 2009 in his hotel in bankok at the age of 73. He is also more known for his role in Kill Bill 1 and 2.
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“possible SYN flooding on port 80. Sending cookies.” is what I came into on Monday of this week on our web server. With the site crawling and being driven to its knees, I needed to figure out the best way to stop this attack. Here’s what I came up with…
First turn off net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies ( I know this is supposed to help but it caused more harm then good )
sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies=0
Next I wrote this small script to block hosts with more then 15 SYN_RECV requests using iptables.
#!/bin/bash
i=0
while [ $i -eq 0 ]
do
netstat -n --tcp --udp --numeric-hosts netstat -n --tcp --udp --numeric-hosts | grep SYN_REC | awk '{if (/(tcp|udp)/) { print $5 }}' | sed 's/:.*//' | sort | uniq -c | awk '{ if ($1 > 15) { print $2 "#" $1; }}' | while read line; do if [ `echo $line | sed 's/#.*//' | egrep -c -f ips` != "1" ];then iptables -A INPUT -s `echo $line | sed 's/#.*//'` -j DROP; echo $line | sed 's/#.*//' >> ips; fi; done
sleep 2
done
In a matter of about 15 minutes things started to act normal. I would probably re-enable net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies after a few days only because it logs the attack so it’s easier to identify.
Chapstick has a pretty wide varieties of flavors these days. These include the traditional “Classic” flavors Original, Strawberry, Spearmint and Cherry.
As well as the newer Flava-Craze flavors, available in Grape Craze, Blue CrazeBerry, and Fruit Craze.
It looks like our choices are pretty limited here. I mean all we really have to choose from is something that tastes either minty or fruity. I’m going to even talk about Original flavor because it just plain sucks. What if we wanted something a little more savory??
Well as you might have guessed here it is…
J&D’s Bacon Lip Balm “Now you can make yourself taste like bacon. Our Bacon Flavored Lip Balm is a constant reminder of the awesome power of bacon. J&D’s Bacon Flavored Lip Balm will keep your lips from chapping while constantly reminding you why bacon is the king of meats.”
Just imagine how awesome your significant other will think you are when you lay a big kiss on them after slathering up with some of this tasty stuff.
Introducing Google Wave (click for bigger pic)
At first glance it does look pretty damn cool. The commenting on specific parts of the conversation is an awesome and useful function that I could use pretty much hourly. The organization of multiple people in one conversation is another great feature I would use.
Is it going to take over email? I highly doubt it. But for all us Gmail users out there it sure will be cool.
I look forward to watching the keynote as soon as they have it available. Watch the keynote and sign up to be notified on the launch here.
Just in case you needed a use for Bakon Vodka Here is the recipe for a Bakon Mary.
They say once you go “Bakon” you never go back.
• 1 oz. to 1½ oz. Bakon Vodka in a Highball glass filled with ice.
• Fill glass with tomato juice
• 1 dash celery salt
• 1 dash ground black pepper
• 1 dash Tabasco
• 2-4 dashes of Worcestershire sauce
• 1/8 tsp. horseradish (pure, never creamed)
• Dash of lemon or lime juice
Garnish with a celery stalk; a skewer of olives, pickles, carrots, mushrooms, or other vegetables; or even meat or shrimp (bacon, salami, shrimp, etc.) and cheese. Pickled asparagus spears or pickled beans are also great as a garnish.
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