Adam, > hmm - wouldn't that also block search spiders as well? I can imagine they > spider fairly quickly throughout your site. This may be your desired > functionality however.
You are right, I guess I could add a simple filter using CGI USER AGENT and sort out fast/altavista/google and other search engines I know about (and care about). > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jason Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 3:42 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: This is cool.. Doable?? > > > > > > Is there a CF solution for primitive dos attacks? > > I've got an intresting message from a server, and I'm > > intrested in building > > a similiar mecahnisem. > > Can anyone reffer me to good sources? Mr. Watt maybe? :) > > > > "Ouch, you are hurting our servers! > > You were hitting the site from your IP Address of > > 212.199.26.42 at a rate > > faster than comprehensible by a human at 56 hits per minute > > for 13 minutes. > > If allowed to continue, it would cause our servers to crash and be > > unavailable to other users. Please slow it down! > > > > Some causes of this problem are: > > > > 1) Using a download accelerator program (such as Download > > Accelerator) or > > automated retrieval program (such as 'Get Right'). These > > programs may speed > > up access to small sites, but on large sites like this one, > > with so many > > people trying to use them, they cause server outages. > > 2) Turning off caching in your browser (which causes it > > reload every image > > on every page...taxing the servers) > > 3) Plain old browsing too quickly... > > > > If this is your first warning...this page will disapper in 24 > > hours. Users > > who continue to violate this rule will be permanently banned > > from the site. > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get Your Own Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation · $99/Month · Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusionb FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
