Re: protection against DDoS attacks

2009-02-25 Thread Ahmad Al-Ibrahim
Willy, Thank you for your quick response. I went with setting cookies approach, selecting the proper backend based on the cookie, I'm not doing any redirect, if the cookie is set HAProxy forward the request to backend A, if not forward to backend B. Both backends A and B are similar and tries

Re: protection against DDoS attacks

2009-02-24 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 07:43:53PM +0300, Ahmad Al-Ibrahim wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using HAProxy in the frontend as a reverse proxy to backend servers, > I'm thinking of possible ways to protect backend servers from being > attacked. > How effective is doing url redirect to protect against these at

protection against DDoS attacks

2009-02-24 Thread Ahmad Al-Ibrahim
Hi, I'm using HAProxy in the frontend as a reverse proxy to backend servers, I'm thinking of possible ways to protect backend servers from being attacked. How effective is doing url redirect to protect against these attacks? Or balancing based on URI? How about using cookies? for example Logge