New Apache Module For Fending Off DoS Attacks

Posted by Hemos on Wednesday October 30, 2002 @12:36AM from the beath-them-down dept.

Network Dweebs Corporation writes "A new Apache DoS mod, called mod_dosevasive (short for dos evasive maneuvers) is now available for Apache 1.3. This new module gives Apache the ability to deny (403) web page retrieval from clients requesting more than one or two pages per second, and helps protect bandwidth and system resources in the event of a single-system or distributed request-based DoS attack. This freely distributable, open-source mod can be found at http://www.networkdweebs.com/stuff/security.html"

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Re:How clever is it? by The+Whinger · 2002-10-30 02:33 · Score: 4, Insightful

"Also, is there anything you can do to ensure that several people behind a NATing firewall all surfing to the same site don't trip the anti-DOS features?"

Whilst not totally impossible ... the chances of this are SMALL. Same URI same minute ... possible, same URI same second ... rare I guess ...