And there I was surprised to find that they were running a freshly installed Mandrake 9.2 with bizarelly identical apache configuration to mine:

Server: Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/2.0.47 (Mandrake Linux/6.12.92md
+k) mod_perl/1.99_09 Perl/v5.8.1 mod_xslt/1.0.5a mod_ssl/2.0.47 OpenSS
+L/0.9.7b DAV/2 PHP/4.3.2 Catacomb/0.8.0 mod_mono/1.0.5
[download]

They had taken a rather strange scorched earth approach to defending themselves from being slashddotted:

; <<>> DiG 9.2.3rc2 <<>> www.hmsonline.com any
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 59083
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 2
 
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.hmsonline.com.             IN      ANY
 
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.hmsonline.com.      2525    IN      CNAME   mosquito.hmsonline.com
+.
 
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
hmsonline.com.          2525    IN      NS      den-sns-02.inet.qwest.
+net.
hmsonline.com.          2525    IN      NS      phosphorus.hmsonline.c
+om.
hmsonline.com.          2525    IN      NS      silicon.hmsonline.com.
hmsonline.com.          2525    IN      NS      dca-sns-01.inet.qwest.
+net.
hmsonline.com.          2525    IN      NS      den-sns-01.inet.qwest.
+net.
 
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
silicon.hmsonline.com.  2525    IN      A       67.132.206.14
phosphorus.hmsonline.com. 2525  IN      A       67.132.206.15
 
;; Query time: 17 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Fri Jul  1 11:46:29 2005
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 226
 

[jonathan@orpheus mirror]$ dig  mosquito.hmsonline.com a
 
; <<>> DiG 9.2.3rc2 <<>> mosquito.hmsonline.com a
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10447
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 2
 
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;mosquito.hmsonline.com.                IN      A
 
;; ANSWER SECTION:
mosquito.hmsonline.com. 2477    IN      A       127.0.0.1
 
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
hmsonline.com.          2477    IN      NS      phosphorus.hmsonline.c
+om.
hmsonline.com.          2477    IN      NS      silicon.hmsonline.com.
hmsonline.com.          2477    IN      NS      dca-sns-01.inet.qwest.
+net.
hmsonline.com.          2477    IN      NS      den-sns-01.inet.qwest.
+net.
hmsonline.com.          2477    IN      NS      den-sns-02.inet.qwest.
+net.
 
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
silicon.hmsonline.com.  2477    IN      A       67.132.206.14
phosphorus.hmsonline.com. 2477  IN      A       67.132.206.15
 
;; Query time: 8 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Fri Jul  1 11:47:17 2005
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 224
[download]

He heh

/J\

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