Hello,

Ever since the post about the filing on Apr 21, my systems have been under
attack. It is coming from over 3000 ip addresses and has made it almost
impossible for people to download files from my ftp site. My site
averages 700MB-1GB daily. Since this mess started the downloads are now
about 20 MB. I limit the number of connections from an IP address. I am
seeing over 400 connection attempts per IP per 10 minutes. That combined
with various other attacks.

It is really annoying. The attacks on http are coming from various linux
browser/machines. Why are some linux zealots so... Some of us try to
provide support for all Linux/UNIX OS's. To attack us because we
support/assist others with SCO is really bad.

Why can't these imature people allow us to co-exist? I have had a few
emails asking me to lift the IP address ban because they need files from
my machines. Sadly, I may have to prevent ftp access from any dynamic IP
address because of these zealots.

It would be a lot easier to block and then allow IP addresses if SCO had
iptables for the OpenServer OS's. I use LKP for UnixWare 7.1.4. Sadly, I
maybe forced to stop access to my machines for the few people that still
keep their Open Source Packages on SCO OS's up to date, because, they can
not connect from the same IP addresses and these attacks are effecting
them as well. I guess the Linux Zealots are winning because they are
achiving what they want. Stopping people from accessing anything SCO. It
has been extremely difficult to work over the internet because all my
bandwidth is being exhausted by these attacks.

I understand why people post but that one post has caused me a ton of
greef. It some of the bad apples from the Linux Community would realize
they are doing more harm than good. What they are doing is showing how a
small minority really need to grow up and get a life.

I know this probably will not stop, the attacks but I really needed to
vent. I have support Linux since it's very first internet/usenet release.
So what these idiots are doing is showing the people that get things from
my sites for linux as well are being hindered. When I explain to the
people emailing me that it is coming from their own communitity, they are
really assamed. I am too. I really dislike any group that does not have
tolerence for others and their choices.

Thanks for listening,

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Boyd Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com>
ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047