Questions tagged [flooding]

Flooding is a type of Denial of Service(DoS) network attack, which consists of the generation of numerous TCP requests intended to overwhelm a web server and result in slowdown or downtime.

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Codeigniter creating connection per client using Singleton

Well I have an issue with a Codeigniter application and the database connections. As far as I've read on the Internet, CodeIgniter uses singleton to handle instances of the objects, such as the database object. So, with this, I understand that…
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How to check if a user of my web application is trying to login with different credentials?

I'm trying from 3 days to make or find good way to detect if there is a user trying to login my web application with many login credentials or making flood attack, so I can show captcha as example in this cause in my login page, but with no luck. I…
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Thread in C# that makes an post on my server - Flood

I have an APPLICATION in C # that aims to make http post requests in my server using threads. (This to simplify the matter, because in fact, there are several different trheads that make requests on different URIs) It turns out that these treads are…
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ActiveMQ - Memory limit reached for topic (Mirror Queue)

We are using ActiveMQ 5.6 with the following configuration: - Flow control on - Memory limit for topics 1MB - Mirror Queues enabled (no explicit Virtual Topics defined) There are persistent messages being sent to a queue QueueA. Obviously, this…
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RTCPeerConnection and anti-flood - How many ICE Candidates are normal

I have written a signalling server for a webcam chat platform that also functions as a chat server. Now I want to implement anti-flooding measures. My plan is to implement this in the server application first, then try to somehow add the banned IPs…
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Apache james STMP Flooding

I want to use James as a relay to handle incoming email and put them in a system through webservice. It works fine. BUT I want to handle an eventual flood created by a misconfiguration of the program that sends email to this server... Is there…
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Flooding algorithm on a network

So I have to simulate the original flooding algorithm for a course project and I wanted to clarify and confirm some thinks because it seems to be really difficult to find what I want on the Internet (so I must be doing something wrong)... Anyway as…
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Flood mitigation in ASP.NET application

I have a form on a web site that submits data using jQuery ajax in a JSON format to a sendmail.aspx page, that in an async manner sends an e-mail to corporate mailbox. I don't want to use captcha. This will make it less comfortable for a user to…
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Is there a way to turn off Drupal flood unblock/control from code?

I would like to turn off the flood unblock/control in Drupal, because the user are blocked after a wrong password. Attemted all of simple possibilities and disabled it on the admin page, but every user is blocked after a wrong password.The flood…
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Is there any way to simulate a SYN Flood attack in INET/OMNeT++?

I have this kind of topology: attacker <-> router <-> victim, where attacker and victim are both StandardHost and router is Router (both from inet.node.inet). I know that a SYN flood attack might be tricky to define, but I'm looking for a way to…
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Is it possible to disrupt the communication between two parties without a TCP RST attack?

I was wondering if it was possible to disrupt the communication between two parties by sending a large amount of packets with a spoofed source address (HOST A) so that the targeted address (HOST B) would stop responding to the spoofed source address…
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Someone sending continuosly request to server and flooding it

I have my express server deployed and someone is continuously sending some requests and flooding the server. This flooding makes the server super slow. 2021-12-22T08:32:00.591180+00:00 app[web.1]: GET /socket.io/?EIO=4&transport=polling&t=NtXHCIU…
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php Blocking flooding request by session or IP

I want to block flooding requests by session or IP. This is my requirement. If any user send 1000 requests within 1 hour, I want to block that request. I don't know it's done by session or IP. Please help me to do this. Please provide script if you…
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High CPU load on SYN flood

When being under SYN flood attack, my CPU reach to 100% in no time by the kernel proccess named ksoftirqd, I tried so many mitigations but none solve the problem. This is my sysctl configurations returned by the sysctl -p: net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies =…
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SYN Flooding Attack

I am trying to stop SYN Flooding Attack but when I set net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1 in sysctl.conf I get this error /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies: No such file or directory