Re: [squid-users] Alot of IP bases URL http requests

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 18:49:53 +0100 (CET)

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, iweyou wrote:

> I have a very strange problem running squid-2.4.STABLE3 on Redhat Linux with iptables.
> For hours squid works fine but when the follwoing unexpected IP based URL requests(More than 100
> Requests per minute) hit my cache server it becomes unstable.These requests are generated
> by some of my windows based networked machines. I dont know whether these requestes are generated
> by some viruses or worms.

You can use the maxconn acl in Squid to somewhat limit the effect on your
Squid server.

There is also a similar acl in iptables which can be used to further
strengthen your system against this kind of malware..

Regards
Henrik
Received on Mon Mar 22 2004 - 10:50:01 MST

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