[ZendTo] Zend.To down?

[Ricky Boone]

It sucks that you're having to put up with that kind of nonsense.

I haven't directly managed mailman, so I'm not sure if there are any
caveats or problems that might come up with this, but if you're using
fail2ban on the server you may be able to mitigate some types of
automated attacks.  There isn't currently anything in the project
specifically for mailman, but a quick search came up with an article
on enabling CSRF protection that included a custom mailman log monitor
config for fail2ban.

Having a web application firewall may also help, and while some/many
might consider them the devil, service providers such as Cloudflare
might be able to help reduce or eliminate the impact of some of these
types of attacks.  They have a sponsorship program for open source
projects as well.

On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 5:42 AM Julian Field via ZendTo <zendto at zend.to> wrote:
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> It's just a DoS attack.
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> On 25/09/2023 16:06, Scott Silva via ZendTo wrote:
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> Is it some new vuln in mailman or is it just a ddos like attack?
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> From: ZendTo <zendto-bounces at zend.to> On Behalf Of jules--- via ZendTo
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2023 3:22 AM
> To: Ken Etter <KLE at msktd.com>; ZendTo Users <zendto at zend.to>
> Cc: jules at zend.to
> Subject: Re: [ZendTo] Zend.To down?
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> I have just disabled the list subscription facility completely, it's going to be the only way of stopping this attacker I think.
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> Sorry, but they have been killing zend.to for a good week now. Hopefully this will make them go somewhere else.
> We'll see.
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> So currently, list subscription just results in a blank page that does nothing.
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> Cheers,
> Jules.
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> On 21/09/2023 5:45 pm, Ken Etter wrote:
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> Thanks Jules!
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> From: ZendTo <zendto-bounces at zend.to> On Behalf Of Julian Field via ZendTo
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2023 11:05 AM
> To: ZendTo Users <zendto at zend.to>
> Cc: jules at zend.to
> Subject: Re: [ZendTo] Zend.To down?
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> Sorry, someone had done something nasty to my httpd via mailman. Restarted httpd and it's responding now.
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> Thanks for your patience.
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> Cheers,
> Jules.
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> P.S. Currently trying to learn Python and Django in about a day...
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> On 20/09/2023 7:38 pm, Scott Silva via ZendTo wrote:
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> I’m sure Julian will look into it when he is free
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> The man is busier than a one legged man in a butt kicking contest…
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> From: ZendTo <zendto-bounces at zend.to> On Behalf Of Ken Etter via ZendTo
> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2023 11:31 AM
> To: zendto at zend.to
> Cc: Ken Etter <KLE at msktd.com>
> Subject: [ZendTo] Zend.To down?
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> CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders.
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> Anyone know what happened to the zend.to website?  Appears to be down at the moment.
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> Ken
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