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Originally Posted by Robbie
"When everything hit the boards, we went back to check [our server logs] and found the same admin account trying to access our servers every hour," he said Friday. "The IP [address] block was the same one that was blocked over a year ago, so [the person using the account] couldn't get in. It is slowing down the servers a little bit, but they're not actually getting in."
That is a quote from the story... So supposedly some big site had their servers brought down to their knees by ONE IP address attempting to log in and fail? Does anybody ever proof read or use common sense with these stories? This is almost as factual as a Bill OReilly story.
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You obviously don't read well, do you? They said that by blocking the IP of the attacker, it was slowing the servers down a bit. Which it would, if you have 100s of 1000s of hits on a major box and you are running each of those against a blacklist, it will cause some overhead to be consumed doing that.