Re: PHP Denial of service

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# ryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx / 2006-10-13 22:16:18 +0100:
> A simple question I imagine, but I am wondering how I would combat DoS 
> attacks by users holding the REFRESH key on their browsers?
> 
> I have reproduced this error on a PHP-MYSQL website and when I hold the 
> REFRESH key on for a while, page gen times shoot up dramatically and 
> hundreds of processes are created.
> 
> Is there a way I can stop this/limit the connections/processes in apache 
> conf/php.ini?
> 
> What can I do to combat this method of DoS?

    I haven't tried it, but perhaps this would work:

    apache-1.3: http://dominia.org/djao/limitipconn.html
    apache-2.0: http://dominia.org/djao/limitipconn2.html

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