An anonymous reader writes: My name is Charles Winthrop, and I am the technical manager for a small net radio station called KJSR.net
Last night, at approximately 6pm, our broadcast server started getting flooded by connections from several IP address which all resolve to Microsoft's hotmail servers. It has been confirmed by an MSN technical support agent that the attacking IP addresses are theirs, but they have no idea why it is happening, or any ideas on stopping it.
After contacting our ISP, they reported that they had tried blocking the offending IP address to no avail. Soon as one was blocked, another would start making connections. So, today, I have spent the last 5 hours on the phone with various Microsoft departments, who for some strange reason keep transferring me to their sales departments.
I spoke with a tech at MSN who tried to help, but after speaking with his supervisor, came back to say "I've been told to tell you that there's nothing we can do. Bye."
Partial log of the attacks:
[dest: 65.55.106.108] Invalid resource request(/robots.txt)
[dest: 65.55.106.108] Invalid resource request(/robots.txt)
[dest: 65.55.106.108] Invalid resource request(/robots.txt)
[dest: 65.55.106.108] Invalid resource request(/robots.txt)
[dest: 65.55.106.108] Invalid resource request(/robots.txt)
[dest: 65.55.106.108] Invalid resource request(/robots.txt)
[dest: 65.55.106.108] Added to Ban List
[dest: 65.55.106.108] IP in ban list, disconnecting
[dest: 65.55.106.108] IP in ban list, disconnecting
[dest: 65.55.106.108] IP in ban list, disconnecting
[dest: 65.55.106.108] IP in ban list, disconnecting