On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:12:01 +0100 (CET) uxwrstre <uxwrstre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My problem is that my server gets all the time D.o.S. attacks, the > attacker tries to download big files multiple times, and I would like > to limit this per day. IP addresses do not map to users. Think proxies: AOL's has tens of millions of users behind it. If you provide big files, make sure they're cacheable. The good news is, Apache does that by default, so all you have to do is _not_ break it. -- Nick Kew Application Development with Apache - the Apache Modules Book http://www.apachetutor.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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