William A. Rowe, Jr.
Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:22:55 -0700
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote:
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:We might not be able to do much about that anyways but it should probably be documented that it doesn't limit connections or assist in preventing DoS attacks.Are you talking about mod_limitipconn? If you are, then rename it to something entirely different like mod_null.
If our understanding is correct, these are one in the same, and mod_limitipconn before submission to httpd behaved the same way (worse, in that before Niklas' patch there was not only no DoS protection from opening connections, but also no regular checking of cached content.) Sarcasm aside, it does seem that MaxConnPerIP and mod_limitipconn are slightly misnomers. These are limits on concurrent requests (as was the original mod_limitipconn). Bill