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Originally posted by salsbury
i've seen abuse cases where a server has an utterly ancient version of say FormMail installed. that could easily be used to spam and would justify entirely unplugging the server if they're the only ones on it.
in any case... it'd be nice to know what host this is so we can see what we can see from here.
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Yah, exploited formmail can definitely take down a server for a bit... but 12 hours? It has even happened to us on occasion, but I dont think it has ever lasted more then 30 minutes(worst part is deleting the logs usually).. and we tend to keep our clients informed.... I think that is the biggest thing - no one is immune to problems, but customer contact is the stickin point.