Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:37:04 -0400 From: "Tamouh H." <hakmi@rogers.com> To: "'Alex Zbyslaw'" <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>, "'Olivier Nicole'" <on@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Slow server Message-ID: <20060630153703.A5BD143D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <44A50C2E.7080500@dial.pipex.com>
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=20 >=20 > Olivier Nicole wrote: >=20 > >2) as there are many connections comming from search engines siders > > (90% of all the established connections), I'd like to limit the > > ressources that spiders are using. One way would be through IPFW, > > but are there better ways? Is there a way to limit/prioritize in > > Apache (not that I know any). > > =20 > > Lookup mod_security rules for Apache and mod_dosevasive. mod_evasive = will help prevent the spiders from opening many pages at one time mod_security has rules to detect some fake spiders and other bots and = block them from the get go.=20 Both though will add a little bit of overhead to Apache.
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