[7683] in bugtraq
Re: YA Apache DoS attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Burke)
Sat Aug 15 23:38:44 1998
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 23:05:18 -0300
Reply-To: Scott Burke <webfx@WEBFX.CA>
From: Scott Burke <webfx@WEBFX.CA>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
Kovacs Andrei wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Dag-Erling Coidan [ISO-8859-1] Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
>
> Today when I was looking at the Apache 1.3.1 help files i've
> found a
> parameter that might stop this: "RLimitMem". I guess this should make
> Apache
> use only the amount of memory that you want to.
>
> Andy
That will limit the amount of memory consumed by Apache itself, whic=
h
will
save your whole system from being DoS'd, but the server itself will
still be
able to be DoS'd. That merely compartmentalizes the damage :)
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