Re: counter apache DoS attacks?

From: Colin Faber (cfaber@fpsn.net)
Date: 07/29/02 

Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 12:09:30 -0600
From: Colin Faber <cfaber@fpsn.net>
To: Cyrus <cyrus@odsource.com>

ipfw add deny tcp from <ip/mask> to any 80

;-)

Cyrus wrote:
>
> Several people get their jollies off by having differnet servers
> infinitely request my main page thousands of times each therefore shooting
> my memory to poo and a lot of bandwidth. But my problem is the memory, not
> the bandwidth. I've looked through mod_throttle and such, not for me. Is
> there anything out there that can automatically detect and take an action
> for this type of attack? I dunno...like use route on the offenders IP and
> such. But for it to do this automatically. Anyone have any suggestions?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -Cyrus
>
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