hmm - wouldn't that also block search spiders as well? I can imagine they spider fairly quickly throughout your site. This may be your desired functionality however.
Adam. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 3:42 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: This is cool.. Doable?? > > > Is there a CF solution for primitive dos attacks? > I've got an intresting message from a server, and I'm > intrested in building > a similiar mecahnisem. > Can anyone reffer me to good sources? Mr. Watt maybe? :) > > "Ouch, you are hurting our servers! > You were hitting the site from your IP Address of > 212.199.26.42 at a rate > faster than comprehensible by a human at 56 hits per minute > for 13 minutes. > If allowed to continue, it would cause our servers to crash and be > unavailable to other users. Please slow it down! > > Some causes of this problem are: > > 1) Using a download accelerator program (such as Download > Accelerator) or > automated retrieval program (such as 'Get Right'). These > programs may speed > up access to small sites, but on large sites like this one, > with so many > people trying to use them, they cause server outages. > 2) Turning off caching in your browser (which causes it > reload every image > on every page...taxing the servers) > 3) Plain old browsing too quickly... > > If this is your first warning...this page will disapper in 24 > hours. Users > who continue to violate this rule will be permanently banned > from the site. > ______________________________________________________________________ Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation � $99/Month � Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusiona FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
