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Easy way to stop spammers/dos-attacks using lighttpd

First, enable mod_evasive, then add: evasive.max-conns-per-ip = X, where X is some integer.
This works, however if the same domain hosts images and files alike, it could lead to false positives. If a pagehit requires 90 requests, and the clientbrowser is set up to allow more concurrent requests to the site than max-conns-per-ip is set to, [...]


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Strange Ubuntu 8.10 Ibex reviews

It seems STRANGE to say the least that all these reviews about the latest & gratest from Canonical doesn’t even comment the fact that session-support is for all practical purposes non-existant in gnome 2.24 (and therefore Ubuntu). Even more fucked up is the fact that gnome 2.24 does not even gracefully shut down applications when [...]


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