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Date:      Wed, 2 Jan 2002 17:17:27 +0300
From:      Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Jayyness@mindspring.com
Subject:   Re: Kicking a single user off httpd
Message-ID:  <20020102171727.E49613@ns2.wananchi.com>
In-Reply-To: <000f01c19394$42196d10$0300a8c0@jayyness.com>
References:  <000f01c19394$42196d10$0300a8c0@jayyness.com>

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* Totally Jayyness <Jayyness@mindspring.com> [20020102 16:48]: wrote:
> I know how to kill and restart this process... just don't know how to kick a
> single user.  Better explain the situation as I am not sure how to ask my
> question really.
> 
> I recently set up a FreeBSD 4.4 mp3/ftp server.  If you go to my website, it
> is just a directory listing of all my mp3s with playlist songs to stream
> mp3s from the web.
> 
> Well, while trying to listen to my mp3s this morning, they were super
> choppy.  Winamp couldn't keep up with the buffer.  I log into my server and
> find that there are like 40+ connections to port 80 from one single IP....
> So this person must be d/ling MP3s directly from my web interface instead of
> requesting ftp access to my site.... so I do a killall -HUP httpd which
> kills all the connections and restarts my daemon... check netstat -Aan and
> everything looks normal.... my mp3s start streaming nicely... for about 1
> minute (probably less).  Check netstat -Aan again and all the 40+
> connections are back...
> 
> Can I kill that user off of httpd?  If so, what commands do I use?

Kill is rather difficult, IMO. Why don't you use the restrictions that
come as directives in httpd.conf to restrict who can access your server?

<Directory /path/to/mp3z>
 Order allow,deny
 AllowOverride None
 Allow from .some_domain.com
</Directory>

Or so I think ;)


- -Wash

S y s t e m s   A d m i n.

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++
Why can't you be a non-conformist like everyone else?
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