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Re: Help to defend from DOS web attacks

Subject: Re: Help to defend from DOS web attacks
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:55:06 -0200
Hi Emanuel,
You can't block the attackers IPs, because they often use random sources. So, you should limit the packets which use SYN flag activeted, and use some protection like syn cookie that dont let the attack allocate so memory in your gateway.


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----- Original Message ----- From: "Emanuel Marufo" <marufos@gmail.com>
To: <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:41 PM
Subject: Help to defend from DOS web attacks



Hello,

Recently somebody attack my web server, and i thinking defend from that.

I readed the next article:
http://www.quadrunner.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=151&Itemid=2

but i want to know if can config a snort/portsentry to block attackers ip's.

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