[SAC] Re: [OSGeo] #277: Robots Are Attacking!

[OSGeo]

#277: Robots Are Attacking!
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  Reporter:  warmerdam  |       Owner:  sac at lists.osgeo.org
      Type:  task       |      Status:  new                
  Priority:  normal     |   Component:  SAC                
Resolution:             |    Keywords:  trac               
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Comment (by crschmidt):

 1. I've turned on "Combined" (instead of 'common') logging for Trac, so
 that we can see if bots are sending user-agents that indicate contact
 information in the future if this happens.

 2. I've installed httpd-devel so that I can get the apxs binary. (up2date
 -i httpd-devel)

 3. I've downloaded and installed limitipconn:

 {{{
 wget http://dominia.org/djao/limit/mod_limitipconn-0.23.tar.bz2
 cd mod_limitipconn-0.23
 sudo make install
 }}}

 4. Set MaxConnPerIP 1, restarted apache, confirmed that reloading the gdal
 trac page resulted in a couple 503s. Set MaxConnPerIP to 8, reloaded, and
 confirmed no 503s.

 This matches the default of '8' max server connections in Firefox
 about:config on my mac.

 We may want to apply this to other services if we see other problems like
 this occuring: For now, I'd like to leave it on trac only and see what
 happens.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/277#comment:1>
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