This sounds like an issue that is best handled by a firewall. It is tough for MINA to determine the remote host without a socket/open session.
On 10/27/07, stork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm having a lot of problems with my MINA-based server being subjected to > DDoS attacks. > Notably running out of file descriptors ! I have implemented a > ConnectionThrottleFilter which closes sessions that are identified as > illegal, which is working well, but doesn't solve the file descriptor issue. > > Is it possible to prevent a socket from even being opened with MINA, instead > of just applying filters to already open sessions ? > > Thanks for the help. > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Stopping-connections-from-being-opened--tf4703398s16868.html#a13444051 > Sent from the Apache MINA Support Forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- -------------------------------- The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal. Dr. Karl Menninger
