[wx-dev] trac slow

[Robin Dunn]

Stefan Csomor wrote:
> Hi
> 
> trac is currently so slow that it drops out frequently for me, is it a 
> problem for me only or are other seeing this as well, I’d really have 
> the svn-trac post commit integration which streamlines the process, but 
> I don’t think this would be a good idea at the current state of the 
> server ...

For the past few days somebody has been attempting to mirror the APT 
repository, but doing it in a way that is effectively a DoS attack. 
They are flooding the server with dozens of simultaneous connections 
from the same IP address, which quickly uses up all of the apache 
clients available.  It wouldn't be so bad if they just did it once, but 
they seemed to be coming back and redownloading everything again later 
the same day, or the next day.  I finally blocked the IP address 
yesterday, but it looks like at the time you sent this message the 
server was getting hit the same way from another IP address, but this 
time from wget on RedHat according to the user_agent string. 
(Previously it was from some tool pretending to be IE6 on Windows.)

Anybody know off the top of their head if there is Apache directive that 
will limit the number of simultaneous connects from a single IP address?


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