Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:41:30 -0400 From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: blocking a string in a packet using ipfw Message-ID: <20060914144130.GB17002@in-addr.com> In-Reply-To: <4509592A.3040602@digiware.nl> References: <4509592A.3040602@digiware.nl>
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On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 03:29:14PM +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > I received a call from a customer this morning that all of his websites were > no longer on line. So After some resetting and more I turnout that there > was a > serious overload on his server. Over 500 clients connected. (norm is 50) and > they were all trying to get this file 777.gif. (Which is not on any of the > sites). Why not just create a 0 length file 777.gif and let people fetch it? Its probably a lot less work for the server.
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