Our servers get maybe 1-2 dozen of those type of requests each day, but nothing serious. :(
I may install an apache restart script for now, but I'd feel a lot better about solving the problem rather than just duct taping things together. Any other ideas? Jessica On 6/20/2003 11:16 PM, Paul Rosenberg wrote: > We experienced a similar type of problem a while back. The cause was traced > to an attack from the web trying to infect our server with a Windows virus. > The virus was unsuccessful since we run Linux/Apache/CF5 but the number of > Apache processes kept increasing until the setup stopped working. > > Initially we installed chron job which constantly checked the number of > open processes and restarted Apache whenever the number went above a > setpoint. While we had a temporary halt, there were no major disruptions. > But not too elegant. We then worked on our firewall to reject the offending > sites but new offenders keep popping up. > > I also would be interested in solutions that others may have used. > > Paul > > Every few days something strange happens to our > > webserver. The server will appear to be functioning > > normally (plenty of free memory, free swap space, etc) > > but the web server will stop responding, the load will > > go to flat 0, and apache will have its maximum number of > > child processes running (per the MaxClients setting). > > > > Just restarting apache will fix the problem for > > a few hours, but the prolbem inevitably returns, but > > if I restart apache AND CF, the problem goes away > > for a few days. > > > > Any thoughts? Any particular information I should > > send along? > > > > Jessica ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=14 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=14 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.14
