deny announce.php torrent requests (Apache Users)

hi all…

i have a bit of an issue with torrent announce.php?info_hash= requests. it sure feels like some sort of dos or ddos. i have tried different ways to configure apache to drop those request using mod_security, mod_rewrite, etc but never the less i still see a lot of ESTABLISHED states that just hang there and the machine eventually gives up..

so far i have tried this:

with mod_security (within modsecurity.conf):

SecRule REQUEST_URI "\?info_hash\=" "phase:2,id:'10000002',t:none,rev:1,severity:2,log,deny,msg:'Torrent Announce Hit Detected'"

here i can see in the audit log that "Connection: closed" but i can still see all the request in the virtual domain's log (vs the mod sec_audit log). and still see the http ESTABLISHED connections (via netstat) just lingering.

with mod_rewrite (in global context):

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^/announce$ - [F]

RewriteRule ^/announce\.php$ - [F]

</IfModule>

also

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^/announce$ - [F]

RewriteRule ^/announce\.php$ - [F]

</Directory>

and within the virtual domain context:

Order deny,allow

Deny from all

</FilesMatch>

monitoring via server-status i can still see hits to http://mydomain.com/announce.php and netstat keeps growing with ESTABLISHED states.

is all of this above wrong?! since this domain appears to be the only one affected i can eventually change that - it's for internal company use - but before i do that - why none of the methods described above can get rid of the torrent flood?

thanks…