Re: [toaster] number of connections form the same ip

2004-03-07 Thread Christian Lyra
Hi, > > The incident make me thinking about a way to handle this kind of > > problem, and seems to me that if I could limit the number of connections > > from a single IP my server would not suffer this kind of DOS again. > > > > Tcpserver doesnt have this kind of control, right? it can on

Re: [toaster] number of connections form the same ip

2004-03-06 Thread Bill Shupp
Christian Lyra wrote: Hi, I´m glad that I just finished my " toaster" today, but as I just put it online and a strange problem started: I couldnt sent e-mails. Pstree shows that the maximum number of qmail-smtpd are active, and telnet´ing to port 25 didnt work. Soon, I realize that someone w

[toaster] number of connections form the same ip

2004-03-05 Thread Christian Lyra
Hi, I´m glad that I just finished my " toaster" today, but as I just put it online and a strange problem started: I couldnt sent e-mails. Pstree shows that the maximum number of qmail-smtpd are active, and telnet´ing to port 25 didnt work. Soon, I realize that someone was trying to se