slowloris

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Unlike previously utilized DoS methods, slowloris works silently.

LXer Linux News Christian Folini 2009
Looking more closely at the slowloris script provides an overview of the technique used.

LXer Linux News Christian Folini 2009
P.S. The real motivation was not to fight slowloris attack - it was to reduce server load when it talks with thousands of dial-up clients.

LXer Linux News Christian Folini 2009
A slowloris connection eats much fewer resources than that, but Apache doesn't know that and thus reaches the configuration's limit far too quickly.

LXer Linux News Christian Folini 2009
I could only come up with proxying stuff for at least some fixed minimal timeout (which is not an option for lots of pages) and googling 'nginx slowloris' doesn't yield anything particularly useful to me.

LXer Linux News Christian Folini 2009
Thus the web need not be shut down by penny-wielding customers or slowloris. pointed out that the AcceptFilter directive used in conjunction with FreeBSD's kernel http_accept filter should be ported to Linux in order to help with the defense.

LXer Linux News Christian Folini 2009
But slowloris is only a proof of concept of a HTTP DoS.

LXer Linux News Christian Folini 2009