Nicholas Sherlock wrote: > On 12/01/2010 10:04 p.m., J. Bakshi wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I am dared to see what "ab" (apache benchmarking too) can do against an >> apache server. I have used the following against my server to check >> call handling >> >> ` ` ` >> ab -n 1000 -c 20 http://<site-name>/index.php?no_cache=1 >> ` ` ` >> >> >> and it simply bottle neck the target apache server. the target server >> is also over loaded with huge cpu load. Is there any precaution to >> prevent this ? the target system is already protected with >> mod_security. > > A quick Google turned this up: > > http://www.commandlineisking.com/2009/05/rate-limiting-and-dos-protection-in-mod.html > > > Sounds very promising. > > Cheers, > Nicholas Sherlock > > > - Thanks Nicholas, I am trying to do the same with iptables only. Now a days iptables has become very matured ; unfortunately have not got success yet . I am trying to use hashlimit module to do the job. regards -- জয়দীপ বক্সী --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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