[ic] Single IP causes Denial Of Service

Grant emailgrant at gmail.com
Wed Aug 13 15:15:10 UTC 2008


>> Did you look at the mod_quota module and choose mod_evasive over
>> that one?
>
> The feature of interest in mod_evasive is that its limitations are applied to
> individual incoming IPs such that no single requesting IP can exceed the
> configured number of requests within the configured interval.
>
> mod_quota is more for a hosting environment, where you want to make sure that
> bigbuns.com, which is Joe Smith's site hosted on your server, doesn't transfer
> more than 4 gigs of bakery pictures per day.

Very nice, thanks Jeff.

- Grant



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