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anti-DOS techniques?

To: lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: anti-DOS techniques?
From: "Matt Sturtz" <lvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 12:16:54 -0700 (MST)
Hello all--

We're using the RedHat AS 2.1 version of LVS.  I'm not sure exactly what
the differences are, but Red Hat didn't have any answers for what we'd
like to do.

I know that iptables can block connections if they exceed a specified
number of connections per second (from anywhere).  The question is, is
anybody doing this on a per-client basis, so that if any particular IP is
sending us more than a specified number of connections per second, they
get blocked but all other clients can keep going?

We occasionally (several times per week) experience what can only be
described as a traffic storm, or DOS attack.  LVS handles it just fine,
but the web-servers get loaded up really bad, and pretty soon our site is
all but un-usable.  Also looking for tools we could use to analyze this
(we use Webalizer for our web-logs-- but it can't tell us who's talking to
us in any given time-frame...)

Thanks in advance for any words of wisdom...  :-)

-Matt-
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