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I don't see why it's related to DOS attacks. You would usually deal with DOS in other ways - limit req/s on a source IP basis, etc, or with iptables rules. Fai
by axod 17y ago
I don't see why it's related to DOS attacks. You would usually deal with DOS in other ways - limit req/s on a source IP basis, etc, or with iptables rules.
Failure at all, seems an extremely undesirable situation. Surely. surely it's better to be slow than to fail? eg if the server is under extreme load, just means requests take a bit longer to get processed, rather than dropping them.
- fauigerzigerk 17y agoI don't claim to be particularly competent at dealing with DOS attacks, I'm really just asking questions here. What you say seems right to me up to a point. But once the server gets so overwhelmed that it has no chance to ever process those requests, it makes little sense to queue them all up for delivery in 20 minutes, does it? Also, I wonder whether queuing them all up uses scarce resources. That's why I was asking about memory usage.