On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, iweyou wrote: > I have a very strange problem running squid-2.4.STABLE3 on Redhat Linux with > iptables. > For hours squid works fine but when the follwoing unexpected IP based URL > requests(More than 100 > Requests per minute) hit my cache server it becomes unstable.These requests are > generated > by some of my windows based networked machines. I dont know whether these requestes > are generated > by some viruses or worms.
You can use the maxconn acl in Squid to somewhat limit the effect on your Squid server. There is also a similar acl in iptables which can be used to further strengthen your system against this kind of malware.. Regards Henrik
