i just finished reading, in your whitepage ddos was easily match to a single header (user-agent) so it's easy to block that ... but regardless i found some interesting stuff to look into, so thanks alot for writing it :)
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 4:32 AM, Per Buer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:37 PM, alexus <[email protected]> wrote: >> How does Varnish handles DDOS? > > I've interviewed a couple of sysadmins that have been hit with DOS and > DDOS attacks a couple of times. I've write an article that is > available for download here: > http://www.varnish-software.com/products-services/whitepapers (please > note: registration required). > > A lot of the time you can get much better results blocking stuff with > Varnish because you can block on the HTTP level, so you can block > specific user agents, accept-encoding strings or on any combination of > headers. > > -- > Per Buer, Varnish Software > Phone: +47 21 98 92 61 / Mobile: +47 958 39 117 / Skype: per.buer > Varnish makes websites fly! > Want to learn more about Varnish? http://www.varnish-software.com/whitepapers > -- http://alexus.org/ _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] http://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
