My approach would be to filter urls longer than the longest legitimate  
URL before they got to my servers. My weapon of choice would be a  
Squid reverse proxy.

-- 
Cary Gordon
The Cherry Hill Company
http://chillco.com

On Aug 8, 2008, at 9:00 AM, Terry Ford wrote:

> Our server has now logged 51,000 attack requests in the last 4 hours.
>
> 160,000 attacks in the past 24 hours.
>
> I suspect we are getting hit so hard because we have hundreds of  
> thousands of pages in Google.
>
> In short, these attacks are starting to grow very quickly in  
> intensity.
>
> We are redirecting them away from CF with mod_rewrite, so CURRENTLY  
> there is no major problem.
>
> My concern is what we are to do if these attacks keep growing at the  
> current rate, and we end up taking in MILLIONS of requests an hour a  
> day or two from now.   Does anyone know of any solution?
>
> Our ISP has a firewall product (Cisco ASA firewall), but it deals on  
> the packet level only.  It has no visibility into URLs, so we have  
> no way right now to filter traffic based on URL parameters.
>
> Any ideas on what we are to do should things continue to worsen?
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