[IRCServices Coding] Services' segfault

[Andrew Church]

>>      This is bizarre, and looks like memory corruption; can you 
>> reproduce
>> it consistently?
>
>Not really. As I said, I suppose the machine on which the services are 
>running (which also is our main hub server) was probably under attack - 
>just like yesterday, *sigh*.
>The whole network froze and other servers (including mine) splitted, and 
>when we came back there was no sign of services, just that core file. I 
>didn't find anything strange in the logs either.
>I didn't check the cpu load when I logged onto the machine, but I've 
>heard of some attacks that manage to rise the load to  100%. Could that 
>be the case?

     Such attacks are possible, but I doubt those are related to the crash.
It's more likely the flood triggered a bug somewhere in Services that
corrupted memory--I've heard reports of such but have never managed to
track it down.  Version 5.0 should be more stable in that regard, I hope.

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/