One way to prevent DOS attack is install mod_evasive for apache. I have write the article “Prevent DDoS Attack With mod_evasive in Apache 2“, a while ago.And now if you want to check if the mod_evasive is working correctly, you can use the simple perl script below:To run the script:This script will do 100 request to your webserver. And will return the response code. As you know it is return code 200 means it success to connect. But if it is 404 (not found) or 302 … Read more...
Prevent DDoS Attack With mod_evasive in Apache 2
September 15, 2010 • 7 Comments
Getting DDoS attack is a very annoying things. Beside make your server slower and worse make your server down. DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) is an attempt to attack the server target with flood of request from many sources, to make the target server busy and then down. DDoS attack have many various technique but it is basically flood the target server with high and cpu consuming request and later make the server malfunction or down.You can prevent DDoS attack by using mod_evasive in … Read more...
