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Posted on January 14, 2014

Hi

Yesterday i setup a droplet, just with a nginx + php-fpm + mysql to run a new version of moodle, v2.6 But, tomowwor morning my account have benn suspended with the following note:

“Your account/droplet was involved in an outgoing SYN flood attack. As a result, it was shutdown.”

Here is the print of the Bandwidth utilization: http://oi41.tinypic.com/kn3t2.jpg



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Looking at the server configs i not found nothing wrong… Anyone have any idea what happened?

Hi Geoff, i think is not related because at the time when this problem occurred, at 6am, there was no users logged on… Nobody using moodle!

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