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[nycphp-talk] Urgent: Help in Defending Attack

Matt Juszczak matt at atopia.net
Thu Feb 28 11:09:59 EST 2008


Mod throttle in apache for the win.  I haven't read this thread yet but I will when I get to work. 
Matt 

-----Original Message-----
From: "Randal Rust" <randalrust at gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:08:02 
To:"NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Urgent: Help in Defending Attack


On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Dan Cech <dcech at phpwerx.net> wrote:

>  To me this doesn't really sound like an attack.  Unless you're getting
>  thousands of hits from the same IP

they are different IPs, and when i do a lookup on many of them, i get
*invalid IP range* on them.

> it's more likely that your site has
>  just reached the point where its resource requirements exceed the
>  capacity allocated to it.

i do believe that is a possibility.

>  Are you using persistent connections?

honestly, i can't say. we use the adodb abstraction layer to do all of
our database calls. my understanding was that adodb terminated the
connection when it is finished doing it's job.

> Are you on a shared (vhost) box?

dedicated.

-- 
Randal Rust
R.Squared Communications
www.r2communications.com
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