Re: Patch against server DOS

2014-08-16 Thread B.R.
Hello, I may have missed something, but it was to my understanding that nginx continuously send data to clients, thus fill up buffers whil the client empties it at the same time (FIFO). Thus, to me, backend upload was stopping when the allocated buffer(s) was(were) full, waiting for space being av

Patch against server DOS

2014-08-15 Thread double
Hello, My NGINX got a denial of service. The machine proxied large files using "proxy_store". Someone was creating an artifical request for a rarely used file, causing NGINX to download a big file from upstream, then he immediately closed the connection. NGINX continued to download this file. Then