[ic] Single IP causes Denial Of Service
Grant
emailgrant at gmail.com
Mon Aug 11 15:55:12 UTC 2008
>> I've just finished having a run-in with the discobot. I didn't have
>> it in RobotUA and it was repeatedly accessing the same dynamic page
>> at short intervals with different session IDs appended, making IC
>> inaccessible. It seems like a single IP shouldn't be able to cause
>> a DOS. Is there anything I can do to prevent this type of situation
>> in the future?
>
> I use mod_evasive on Apache to prevent too many requests, in a small period of
> time, from the same IP.
Did you look at the mod_quota module and choose mod_evasive over that one?
- Grant
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