From: david@dark.x.dtu.dk
To: J and T <j_and_t@hotmail.com>
Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Stopping greedy http clients!
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:58:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020924115818.GA23587@dark.x.dtu.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F76qUlyunxtkVO4alvo00004b24@hotmail.com>
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 05:52:50PM -0700, J and T wrote:
> Is there a way to set a "speed limit" on tcp port 80 requests? Here's my
> problem:
>
> I have a very popular site with hundreds of pages updated dynamically every
> 4 hours. Since high-speed internet access has become more popular, I have
> found more and more visitors using robots to download all pages in one
> quick multi-threaded connection. When you have a 1,000 people downloading
> 100 pages all at once you end up with a problem. I can't just block them by
> their IP because their IPs are dynamic.
I would take a look at iplimit from patch-o-matic, which "allows you to
restrict the number of parallel TCP connections to a server per client IP
address (or address block)". It will not block the access to your site, but
you can use it to limit the number of parallel downloads the clients can
use.
- David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-24 11:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-24 0:52 Stopping greedy http clients! J and T
2002-09-24 11:58 ` david [this message]
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2002-09-24 13:15 Rob Sterenborg
2002-09-24 14:41 ` Maciej Soltysiak
2002-09-26 15:51 ` Matt Ryanczak
2002-09-28 14:58 J and T
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