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20041215 Wednesday December 15, 2004

Tool to defeat a DOS against an Apache server farm Throttling the number of requests that come in to a single web server instance isn't rocket science but it requires keeping track of a state shared amongst processes/threads. But how would you efficiently throttle requests that come to a set of servers?

Apparently, there's some Apache goodness available for this now. At least I think it sounds good! Ian Holsman has written mod_ip_count for Apache 2.0. It uses the APR portability layer and memcached for shared state (actually apr_memcache from Paul Querna). This would enable a whole server farm to keep track of request rates from and throttle specific IP addresses.

( Dec 15 2004, 04:24:13 PM PST ) Permalink


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