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Re: Apache DoS Attack
From: dag-erli () IFI UIO NO (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav)
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 14:08:07 +0200
Jonathan Freeman <freeman () ADHOST COM> writes:
<> IIS 3.0 (Service Pack 3) causes immediate jump to 100% CPU for approx. 5 seconds multiple attacks can keep the CPU in the 90% range <> IIS 4.0 (Service Pack 3) causes immediate jump to 80% CPU for approx. a half second multiple attacks DO NOT cause more thank 40% sustained CPU
In other words, they're immune. 80% CPU load for half a second simply means the server is working hard to quaff the request (or drink from a firehose, depending on the value passed to sioux with the -n switch ), but it's not leaking. IIS 3.0 is apparently a bad performer (well, a worse performer than IIS 4.0, anyway) and takes more time to recover. Did you run these tests on the same computer (or at least on ident- ically configured computers)? If not, there is no basis for comparison. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli () ifi uio no
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