Am Donnerstag, den 12.07.2007, 13:52 -0400 schrieb Anthony Whyte: > One of our community member institutions are running a Sakai cluster > using James. They use a Big-IP load balancer. When performing Big- > IP health checks every few seconds against various points in their > test system the testing generated numerous TCP connections. > > There testing filled up the available number of connections to James, > and Sakai's email handling effectively shut down. They quickly > changed to SMTP checking and restarted, solving the immediate > problem, but there remains a concern about a potential "denial of > service" issue with the James component, since anyone can perform > that style of TCP check. Is there some way to configure James to not > be vulnerable in this way? > > Cheers, > > Anthony Whyte > Sakai Foundation
In trunk its possible to limit the connections per ip. I think this solve the problem, right ? bye Norman --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
