Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 12:29:52 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Cyrus <cyrus@odsource.com>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: counter apache DoS attacks? Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20020729122752.00bbcbd0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20020729050402.Q47608-100000@odsource.com>
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See my presentation from OSCon: http://www.brettglass.com/apacheabuse/ --Brett P.S. -- The material overlaps somewhat with my recent BSDCon presentation, but this talk specifically focused on Apache and how to avoid abuses ranging from address harvesting to worms. At 03:04 AM 7/29/2002, 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 > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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