Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] How to prevent from simple DoS?

2007-11-23 Thread Sam Testuser
Joshua Slive [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok. I see the issue better now. But what really is the point in trying to eliminate the client who dribbles out data in order to get around the TimeOut? If you are performing a DDoS, you can easily behave just like an ordinary client (requesting real

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] How to prevent from simple DoS?

2007-11-22 Thread Sam Testuser
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 02:53:11PM -0500, Joshua Slive wrote: DDoS is a read herring as far as I'm concerned. If you have an attacker with a significant DDoS network there is NOTHING you can do to stop them. They can simply send junk down the line to tie up your network connection. No

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] How to prevent from simple DoS?

2007-11-22 Thread Sam Testuser
Joshua Slive [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apache httpd does log when a connection hits a TimeOut. (Or if it doesn't, that is certainly a bug that should be reported.) So I don't really understand the premise here. If you hit the timeout, the request is logged in the error log at loglevel error. That

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] How to prevent from simple DoS?

2007-11-21 Thread Sam Testuser
This sounds like a serious issue and the links/hints I have seen in this thread do not seem to acknowledge this fact. If it's a single IP address, then you can block it with the tool of your choice. That's obvious. But in a DDoS setting, your apache server is as dead as the parrot in Monthy