Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Mel Smith" Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: Thwarting DoS attacks Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 18:24:29 -0600 Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <72cc51e1-8680-4ed2-aa76-c6262d885cb1@googlegroups.com> X-Trace: individual.net ndMY9Q0/p4GroAttLtjErA1hMv0/Sc0HEcrOTR5KRaqJjwTsZV Cancel-Lock: sha1:Sw/VU/1qhipGzMoCw3bkvl+tRPw= X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:16372 Dann said: First of all, What leads you to think is a DoS? Why would anyone bother doing so to your webserver? I'm inclined to think like Daniel Pitts, that it may just be a multi-threaded Download Manager someone is using. If so, yes, throttling the bandwidth per IP will do the trick. Dann: There is no doubt its a pointed attack on me alone that is long term (about a year), and its (probably) because that I provide free downloads where the attacker has a money-motive for discouraging me from my activity because he makes money selling a package which includes these downloads -Mel