Re: PHP Denial of service

# ryan@rbftpnetworks.com / 2006-10-13 22:16:18 +0100: > A simple question I imagine, but I am wondering how I would combat DoS > attacks by users holding the REFRESH key on their browsers? > > I have reproduced this error on a PHP-MYSQL website and when I hold the > REFRESH key on for a while, page gen times shoot up dramatically and > hundreds of processes are created. > > Is there a way I can stop this/limit the connections/processes in apache > conf/php.ini? > > What can I do to combat this method of DoS? I haven't tried it, but perhaps this would work: apache-1.3: http://dominia.org/djao/limitipconn.html apache-2.0: http://dominia.org/djao/limitipconn2.html -- How many Vietnam vets does it take to screw in a light bulb? You don't know, man. You don't KNOW. Cause you weren't THERE. http://bash.org/?255991