Re: [users@httpd] My apache server attacked

[Yannick Mercier <ya...@gmail.com>]

You may want to take a look at mod_evasive, depending on
at what rate the mass posting took place, this could have blocked it


On 4/23/07, Jacky <ja...@webnic.cc> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> In our production environment, we have 2 apache servers firewalled to
> accept port 80 and 443 only.
> These apache servers will load balanced to 2 of our resin servlet
> container. Recently we checked from our logs and verified that there are
> certain unwelcomed individuals that did a mass posting to our apache servers
> causing our normal operations nearly to a halt.
>
> I would like to ask for advice from the experienced individuals from this
> mailing list, what you guys normally do to counter this?
> What we are doing right now is blocking them from firewall. Wish to get
> some suggestions from this list.
>
> Thank you..
>
> --
> Warm regards,
> Jacky Wong
>
>
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