> Well I certainly use it to defend from that kind of attack all the time. > Can you give us some idea of the rate (ie: how many requests per > second)? Also, for that kind of attack it's important to be using the > recidive filter. By any chance is it a wordpress site?
How do you do that? The requests per second were not astronomical but my backend gets bogged down when handling several requests per second over a sustained period of time. I am using the recidive filter. It is not a Wordpress site. - Grant >> I recently suffered DoS from a series of 10 sequential IP addresses >> which identified themselves as being associated with a fairly legit >> search engine. fail2ban would have dealt with the problem if a single >> IP address had been used. Can it be made to work in a situation like >> this where a series of sequential IP addresses are in play? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Fail2ban-users mailing list Fail2ban-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fail2ban-users
