Re: [AOLSERVER] Limiting simultaneous requests from one ip-address

2002-10-14 Thread Jim Wilcoxson
> the heavy user. If no one else is using the server, what's the problem? Just one example: I don't like paying for someone on a cable modem to try out his new download toy by starting a download of our site before he goes to bed, only to wakeup and find out it ran all night and still didn't fini

Re: [AOLSERVER] Limiting simultaneous requests from one ip-address

2002-10-14 Thread Daniƫl Mantione
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Jim Wilcoxson wrote: > > I have a lame hack I do which is to check the ns_server information to see if >there is already a process running from the peer address via a filter. It works for >me since mine is an internal app and we have no proxy. > > The problem with this app

Re: [AOLSERVER] Limiting simultaneous requests from one ip-address

2002-10-14 Thread Jim Wilcoxson
> I have a lame hack I do which is to check the ns_server information to see if there >is already a process running from the peer address via a filter. It works for me >since mine is an internal app and we have no proxy. The problem with this approach IMO is that there are no options at that p

Re: [AOLSERVER] Limiting simultaneous requests from one ip-address

2002-10-14 Thread Jim Wilcoxson
I don't know how to do it, but it would be *really* cool if IP addresses could be rate-limited and serialized inside the AOLServer core without having to resort to proxying every incoming connection through another piece of software. Several things would be needed: 1. An interface to set/query t

Re: [AOLSERVER] Limiting simultaneous requests from one ip-address

2002-10-14 Thread Ian Harding
I have a lame hack I do which is to check the ns_server information to see if there is already a process running from the peer address via a filter. It works for me since mine is an internal app and we have no proxy. In the real world, there are proxies, so my hack would never work. >>> [EMAI

[AOLSERVER] Limiting simultaneous requests from one ip-address

2002-10-14 Thread Peter Alberer
Hello, What is the best way to limit the number of simultaneous requests from one ip-address? Is it possible to achieve that via aolserver configuration? Or do I have to look into something like snort? Last Friday I got about 10reqs/sec from one funny user who wanted to copy the entire site. She