Re: Re: How to prevent DoS on PHP script?

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Michelle Konzack < linux4michelle@tamay-dogan.net> wrote: > Am 2008-06-16 12:02:27, schrieb Per Jessen: > > Check client IP-addresses? > > And then? I am DoS'ed from several 1000 IPs and since legitim uploaders > are mostly on dynamic IPs I can not block by IP. > > OK, last Saturday I have installed a COOKIE which worked for the weekend > but today morning the DoS'er have solved this problem too. > > This mean, there are one or more crackers targeting my system directly. > > OK, even if I use heavyly PHP, my system was never hacked since it is > up (Juni 2000) but now I am ongoing to be militant if I catch one of > those pigs... did you see my suggestion to try apache authentication ? i suspect you can protect access to the upload with that, and create a simple script to use yourself to submit the credentials and then perform uploads. -nathan