It was thus said that the Great Maxim Vexler once stated: > > The DoS was caused because a client tried to use one of the popular > spiders to download the whole site. > > I've attached a clip from the error log & the access log (CR/LF terminated). > > As you can see the DoS client can be identified by his IP address. > The same behavior continued for ~8 hours :( > > What can be done to stop the "attack" ? > > Thank you.
It's pretty easy to stop this under Linux (this may work under other Unix flavors if you adjust the command accordingly), by doing, as root: #GenericRootUnixPrompt> route add -host <ip.address.of.attacker> reject This will cause Linux to ignore any packets from the given IP address (if it doesn't work, try "route add <ip.address> netmask 255.255.255.255 reject"). -spc --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
