Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 02:58:47 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Wouter Van Hemel <wouter@pair.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Limiting clients per source IP address (ftpd, inetd, etc.) Message-ID: <20020621235847.GE5836@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <3D13A4DA.28F3B169@mindspring.com> References: <20020621000924.GA2178@hades.hell.gr> <3D129CA8.EFADA4FF@mindspring.com> <1024656206.277.9.camel@cocaine> <3D13A4DA.28F3B169@mindspring.com>
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On 2002-06-21 15:12 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > Someone made the comment about people sitting behind a NAT, so that > the number of connections from a given IP is actually legitimate > traffic. This rate limitation is targetted at an attacker. Actually I was thinking more of ReGet and Godzilla-style software used by some users to play unfair and suck more bandwidth out of an FTP server, by opening a zillion sockets and downloading a single file in chunks. - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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