AW: [EMAIL PROTECTED] need help fighting DoS attack on Apache

2006-05-30 Thread Oliver.Schaudt
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: So 28.05.2006 19:50 An: users@httpd.apache.org Betreff: [EMAIL PROTECTED] need help fighting DoS attack on Apache Hey guys.. My Apache was hit with a DoS attack, where the attacker was opening connections to the server and not sending any data. It quickly reached

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] need help fighting DoS attack on Apache

2006-05-29 Thread Sean Conner
It was thus said that the Great Sergey Tsalkov once stated: Hey guys.. My Apache was hit with a DoS attack, where the attacker was opening connections to the server and not sending any data. It quickly reached the MaxClients limit and prevented any further connections to the server. For

[EMAIL PROTECTED] need help fighting DoS attack on Apache

2006-05-28 Thread Sergey Tsalkov
Hey guys.. My Apache was hit with a DoS attack, where the attacker was opening connections to the server and not sending any data. It quickly reached the MaxClients limit and prevented any further connections to the server. The Server Status was filled with lines like this: 7-2 40390/8/8

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] need help fighting DoS attack on Apache

2006-05-28 Thread Graham Frank
because of what server-status says: It's still reading the request, and that includes the IP. --Graham Frank -Original Message- From: Sergey Tsalkov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 12:50 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED] need help fighting DoS

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] need help fighting DoS attack on Apache

2006-05-28 Thread Sergey Tsalkov
, and that includes the IP. --Graham Frank -Original Message- From: Sergey Tsalkov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 12:50 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED] need help fighting DoS attack on Apache Hey guys.. My Apache was hit with a DoS attack, where

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] need help fighting DoS attack on Apache

2006-05-28 Thread Joshua Slive
On 5/28/06, Sergey Tsalkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is very wrong. I can't figure out why Apache doesn't have any defense against such an obvious attack -- even the connection limiting modules can't help because they have no way of knowing that all the requests are coming from the same IP.

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] need help fighting DoS attack on Apache

2006-05-28 Thread Nick Kew
On Sunday 28 May 2006 19:23, Sergey Tsalkov wrote: This is very wrong. I can't figure out why Apache doesn't have any defense against such an obvious attack -- even the connection limiting modules can't help because they have no way of knowing that all the requests are coming from the same

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] need help fighting DoS attack on Apache

2006-05-28 Thread Sergey Tsalkov
I'm using Apache 1.3.36. mod_choke is supposed to be able to limit the number of connections per IP, but fails to do so for the reason discussed earlier in this thread. mod_evasive, and anti-DoS tool, also failed to stop the attack. Nick, you mentioned that Apache 2.2 has built-in

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] need help fighting DoS attack on Apache

2006-05-28 Thread Nick Kew
On Sunday 28 May 2006 21:23, Sergey Tsalkov wrote: I'm using Apache 1.3.36. *sigh*. Of course a server that's been obnsolete for more than four years isn't up to date. Any 1.x server leaves you with every connection tying up an entire process. mod_choke Never heard of it. Nick, you

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] need help fighting DoS attack on Apache

2006-05-28 Thread Alexey Polyakov
On 5/28/06, Sergey Tsalkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have any suggestions? What you've described doesn't really look like a dangerous DOS-attack. If clients just open connections and stay idle, there's a lot of good workarounds: 1) lower timeout, and raise number of listening servers 2)