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Date:  Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:05:04 -0700
From:  "Adam Crews" <adam.crews (at mark) gmail.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:09335] Re: HTTPD Dos protection - mod_cband
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Message-Id:  <1486c6440703272205t725b69a7l453b51a6f444b13 (at mark) mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <4609DBF3.1090600 (at mark) theanchoragesylvania.com>
References:  <4608F155.3060504 (at mark) theanchoragesylvania.com>	 <4609DBF3.1090600 (at mark) theanchoragesylvania.com>
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This is not a bq thing.  it is included as art of the base os.  you
could contact the centos guys to see if they will roll the fix.

-adam

On 3/27/07, Greg Kuhnert <greg.kuhnert (at mark) theanchoragesylvania.com> wrote:
> I found the cause of the problem listed below. There was a memory leak
> bug in the code that is part of the current BlueQuartz distribution. On
> the official mod_cband website,
> (http://cband.linux.pl/download/mod-cband-0.9.7.3-changelog.txt) they
> write:
>
> 19-04-2006 Arvind Srinivasan <arvind (at mark) madtux.org>
> * fixed memory leak
> * tests with high speed bandwidth and files over 3GB
>
> I upgraded to the latest version (0.9.7.5) and it's been working fine
> ever since.
>
> Can the appropriate people who look after BQ builds please upgrade this
> module in the next release...
>
>
> Thanks.
> Greg.
>
> Greg Kuhnert wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > One of my vsites serves some fairly large files. From time to time, I
> > get users who like to do "segmented downloading" of multiple large
> > files at the same time. I have sometimes seen a few hundred httpd
> > process servicing a single user.
> >
> > A long time ago, I used mod_limitipconn. From what I have read,
> > mod_cband does this and a whole lot more.... and I was pleasantly
> > surprised to find this module is part of BlueQuartz.
> >
> > Anyway, to cut a long story short, it doesnt work. I have tried:
> >
> > 1. Create a new vsite
> > 2. Enable a bandwidth limit in the gui.
> > 3. Go to the website.
> >
> > I get a 503 error straight away.
> >
> > This is before I even got into trying the funky stuff to limit the
> > total number of connections per remote IP address with some extended
> > configuration.
> >
> > Is anyone using this right now? Does it work for you?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Greg.
> >
>
>
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