You'd want to look at the scoreboard. mod_throttle_access
(http://www.fremen.org/apache/) does this function based upon URI. The
only changes would be to base it upon client IP and change the scope to
allow it to be outside a <Directory> block. It would be a minor change.
Regards,
Christian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 7:51 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: IP based instant throttle?
>
>
> Does anyone see the value in a Throttle module that looked at
> the apache parent status block and rejected any request where
> another child was already busy servicing *that same IP* ?
> (note: the real IP is in the header in a backend setup so it
> is not possible to dig it out across children without
> creating another bit of shared memory or using the filesystem?).
>
> I'm still finding existing throttle modules do not pickup and
> block parallel or fast request streams fast enough .. ok there are
> no massive outages but 10 seconds of delay for everyone because
> all demons are busy servicing the same guy before we can conclude
> we're being flooded is not really great.. modperl driven forums
> (or PHP ones even) can be killed this way since there are so
> many links on one page, all active..
>
> thanks for any thoughts on this.
>
> -Justin
>
