Bug 42216

Summary: RFE -- external overload procedure
Product: Apache httpd-2 Reporter: Juerg Umhang <juergu>
Component: mpm_workerAssignee: Apache HTTPD Bugs Mailing List <bugs>
Status: RESOLVED LATER    
Severity: enhancement Keywords: MassUpdate
Priority: P5    
Version: 2.2.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Attachments: implements OverLoadProcedure in worker.c
implements OverLoadProcedure in prefork.c

Description Juerg Umhang 2007-04-24 03:55:39 UTC
please consider this posting as a request for enhancement

httpd knows about his overload situation.
---- [error] server reached MaxClients setting, consider raising the MaxClients
setting
this overload is easily created by an external attacker. in case of an attack
you have to react. best done on a lower osi-layer (iptables, pf, ...).
realtime log analysis has his own odds and twists. we would prefer a call to an
'external helper procedure'.

additional tool to fight against DoS and even DDoS attacks.

patches for worker and prefork are available
Comment 1 Juerg Umhang 2007-04-24 03:58:29 UTC
Created attachment 20026 [details]
implements OverLoadProcedure in worker.c
Comment 2 Juerg Umhang 2007-04-24 03:59:21 UTC
Created attachment 20027 [details]
implements OverLoadProcedure in prefork.c
Comment 3 William A. Rowe Jr. 2018-11-07 21:09:52 UTC
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