From: Ezequiel Garzón Lucero > Could anybody tell me the default value for the -w option. Based on > wget's speed, I imagine it's not even 1, right?
Zero, I assume. > But then, how come > wget users are not flagged as DoS offenders (at least not all the > time)? Some users do not always ask for recursion through an entire site. My most frequent use of wget is to fetch a single file. Recursion, while sometimes useful, is not particularly common for me. Also, I'm not able to disable (or even greatly inconvenience) a server whose bandwidth is greater than mine. With my limited (DSL) bandwidth, that leaves much of the world safe from an attack by me. > [...] does anybody > know what are the standard thresholds for repeated requests? I'd say that it depends on the target of the requests. If I see annoying stuff in my Web or FTP server logs, I complain to the ISP for the pest. If it recurs, I block that IP address. Most serious denial-of-service attacks use more than one attacker. A single wget user can't do very much harm. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven M. Schweda [EMAIL PROTECTED] 382 South Warwick Street (+1) 651-699-9818 Saint Paul MN 55105-2547
