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Apache webserver suddenly stops answering, doesn't crash
Hi I made a trace with tcpdump and here are my conclusions: Because of the CPU going to 100% busy and there are a lot of new users/sec, the server can't answer all those incoming requests and goes into a state of just receiving the new SYN's, but not answering them ==> SYN flood attack. I think...- sitecrusher
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Apache webserver suddenly stops answering, doesn't crash
Hi, I'm doing some tests on Apache webserver (both 1.3 and 2.0 suffer from this problem) on Linux Debian 2.4 with enough CPU and enough RAM. The load linear raises upto 8000 transactions/sec (this is 250 Mbps) and then suddenly falls down to 10 transactions/sec. At the time the server gets 8000...- sitecrusher
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