Here's another suggestion whcih somebody sent me.
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Subject: Re: limit HTTP-GET requests per IP
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 13:02:59 -0300
From: Martín <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Antony Stone <Antony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
You can use an apache module, called mod_throttle (from snert.com if I
remember ...)
En Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:23:31 +0000, Antony Stone
<Antony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:
> On Friday 30 January 2004 1:00 pm, Nikolai Dahlem wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I got a problem. Various people are stupidly trying to mirror my
>> webserver
>> (wget and the like), which puts heavy load on it, due to the dynamic
>> generation of pages. Is there a way to specify a limit on requests per
>> second on an ip basis ?
>
> I suggest you install Squid in Accelerator mode in front of the server
> and use
> the delay pools facility to limit bandwidth to groups of users.
>
> Antony.
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