500+ Hours so far on the 4.77Mhz DOS web server
Warning: As soon as I post this I know the machine is going to be basically DoS'ed. It's not hard to DoS a DOS machine. The machine may refuse to serve your request, but it will stay running, and that's the important part. This is a follow-up to something I posted three weeks ago. Ye old web server running the mTCP HTTP server on DOS has now passed 500 hours of runtime and it is still going, at least until the power glitches. The stats so far: Run-time: 505 hours TCP/IP connections: 34230 Objects served: 38865 TCP Packets sent/received: 996627, 889798 All packet types…
500+ Hours so far on the 4.77Mhz DOS web server launched on May 31, 2022 with 7 votes, #1,052 of 2,942 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.
What it does
Some moron has been using a residential proxy network and flooding the PCjr with fetches to invalid URLs. The machine is great at serving 404s and 414s (served when a URL is too long) but after several days of this we're not really proving anything so I'm shutting it down for a bit. If you want to see what the attack looked like, I streamed some of it. See https://youtube.com/live/DUbZE5IsaFs for the recording. If a link sent you here it should have been pointing at www.brutman.com . You can find all of the content that you needfrom brutmanlabs.org
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Warning: As soon as I post this I know the machine is going to be basically DoS'ed. It's not hard to DoS a DOS machine. The machine may refuse to serve your request, but it will stay running, and that's the important part. This is a follow-up to something I posted three weeks ago. Ye old web server running the mTCP…
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