https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47417





--- Comment #4 from [email protected]  2009-06-25 21:33:33 PST ---
Thanks for your feedback and insights.

Whether we call this a bug, feature or known issue - I was able to very
trivially bring down numerous Apache web servers using a modified version of
this script. I could "workaround" the issue by reducing timeout to very low
numbers (which are always not acceptable in our situation) and/or limit the
headers to unreasonably small numbers (no idea what affect this would have on
some of our more complex apps). The only realistic option I found to work
around this issue is to allocate a large number of processes and assign a large
number of threads to each process (I use mpm_worker), and then hope the the
script kiddid attacking me is not a persistent *gentleman*.

Ofcourse, there are other options such as using firewalls and IDS - both of
which are not practical in many of our use cases.

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