RE: DDoS Attack

["Jonathan A. Zdziarski" <jonathan () networkdweebs com>]

> what would be the best way to combat it?  

Try the Apache DosEvasive Maneuvers module at
http://www.networkdweebs.com/stuff/security.html.  On top of its basic
maneuvers (returning 403's to offending IP addresses), you can also
configure it to call ipchains, ipf, or some other mechanism to shut the IPs
down from a network level.

Jonathan


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