Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mod_qos x mod_security x mod_evasive
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:29:53
Message-Id: 50327338.3030607@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] mod_qos x mod_security x mod_evasive by Alexandre Riveira
1 On 19-Aug-12 23:56, Alexandre Riveira wrote:
2 >
3 > What better module for prevent DOS Attack, mod_qos, mod_security or
4 > mod_evasive
5
6 mod_security seems to me to be the most mature, but might not
7 be easy to configure. But honestly, none of them can protect
8 you from DOS, if malicious traffic saturates your network
9 connection...
10
11 In some cases it is even easier to DOS a web-site with those
12 modules activated (when as a result of incomming traffic all
13 cpu-cycles are used for filtering, instead of serving web
14 pages to valid clients)...
15
16 Jarry
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