It was thus said that the Great Sergey Tsalkov once stated: > > Hey guys.. My Apache was hit with a DoS attack, where the attacker was > opening connections to the server and not sending any data. It quickly > reached the MaxClients limit and prevented any further connections to > the server. > > For some reason, Apache isn't listing the IP of the connection in > Server Status until that connection actually makes a request. Anyone > know why? It might be a SYN based attack, which consumes connections without actually making a connection. I have some notes on fighting such an attack on the Linux platform at http://boston.conman.org/2004/01/04.2 It might also be that you have some limits set too low---a while ago I experienced a situation much like the SYN attack I mentioned above but it was actually a large increase in legitimate requests that the customer neglected to inform me about (they were expecting it due to a marketing campaign, I wasn't expecting it). -spc (Hope this helps some ... ) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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