[resend ... I just realized my email settings were borked for sending] It might be easier (and much more efficient) for your operating system to do this for you:
For example: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/139285/limit-max-connections-per-ip-address-and-new-connections-per-second-with-iptable On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 8:19 PM, Christopher Schultz < ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Leo, > > On 12/2/14 5:12 PM, Leo Donahue wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Chris Gamache <cgama...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> You could probably be more sophisticated in your throttling, > >> letting certain IPs or requests through while tarpitting others. > >> > >> I was thinking about how, from my perspective, I see developers > >> wanting to > > throttle back the number of requests to their web applications (and > > web services) based on the same ip, session, and other factors > > appearing in a given amount of time. > >