DDOS

[alexus]

i just finished reading, in your whitepage ddos was easily match to a
single header (user-agent) so it's easy to block that ...
but regardless i found some interesting stuff to look into, so thanks
alot for writing it :)

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 4:32 AM, Per Buer <perbu at varnish-software.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:37 PM, alexus <alexus at gmail.com> wrote:
>> How does Varnish handles DDOS?
>
> I've interviewed a couple of sysadmins that have been hit with DOS and
> DDOS attacks a couple of times. I've write an article that is
> available for download here:
> http://www.varnish-software.com/products-services/whitepapers (please
> note: registration required).
>
> A lot of the time you can get much better results blocking stuff with
> Varnish because you can block on the HTTP level, so you can block
> specific user agents, accept-encoding strings or on any combination of
> headers.
>
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