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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HTTP Flood on Tomcat server causing issues

I am getting hit with small HTTP floods on my apache server running port 80 which is proxying tomcat on port 8080. Now what is happening is this is causing tomcat to create 100s - 1000s of sessions depending on how many clients get passed the…
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How to bann/block automatically IPs from a large access log with Nginx?

How can I bann or block automatically all IPs that reached 404 page from a large access log? I am using Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04, so I want to do it via Nginx. It can't be done manually because the log has more than a million logs. So is there a way…
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How to convert the result of Monte-Carlo Flooding algorithm to set of polygons?

I am trying to solve this problem by using of Monte-Carlo Flooding algorithm. As result I receive set of semicircles (the picture below), but the requested solution is for trapezoid like polygons. Please, can you suggest me an algorithm by which I…
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PHP: Anti-Flood (Honeypot)

I have an upload form that we are using in-house to allow customers to upload photos of their broadband setups (as an aid to diagnostic checking) and I am currently thinking of security concerns. I initially thought of an elaborate IP banning if…
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How to protect against Flooding

I have made my IRC bot and I've run into the problem of flooding. I'm trying to figure out a way to space out the messages so if 10 people all execute a command at the same time it doesn't excess flood the bot. How would I do this? I was thinking of…
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Measuring mb sent per second with C# sockets? (Multithread)

I am trying to create a multi-threading application that'll try and send a lot of data to a specific IP and port using sockets in C#. I have completed this, but I need help in getting more information from it. I would like to know how I could get…
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How to Investigate "Server locked (outgoing flood)" error?

is there someone who could explain to me how to investigate "Server locked (outgoing flood)" error ?
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IIS: Auto-blacklisting flooding IPs?

Right now, we a have a site that is flooded and the site is very slow. Normally it is working well but someone decided to flood it today. We have other sites on the server and they are not directly affected. We have limited the amount of CPU that…
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Are there any service I could use to limit user flooding request to my server

I am using a cloud database service, cloudant to be specific, it can let every user access directly to database with a good authorization system However it is also a service that scale well and count billing by each and every access to server,…
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Preventing database flooding on register

I have a little webpage where you can login/register for now. Everything is completed, but I wanted to make it more secure for me - server side. For now, there is a validation of your inputs, but if the inputs are correct, it's going to register a…
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Anti flood : session or db stocking ips

right now I'm using an antiflood function in all my websites : function flood($name,$time) { $name = 'tmptmptmp'.$name; if(!isset($_SESSION[$name])) { $_SESSION[$name] = time(); return true; } else { if(time()-$time > $_SESSION[$name]) …
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Flood analysis using Hecras

Hi every one i am performing the basic Hecgeo-ras Tutorial when i exported the geometry in Hec-ras and computed the Steady Flow Analysis in hec-ras it gives me this error 'a horizontal manning n value needs to be specified on first station' Can any…
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Snort rule to detect http flood

Is it possible to use Snort to detect valid repetitive HTTP GET requests? eg. a client machine is sending HTTP requests to flood a server.
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Defend Python socket from TCP SYN flood

I have an example of a server that gets commands and returns answers in python: import socket import time import random CommandDict = {"TIME" : time.strftime("%d-%m-%Y"),"NAME": "Ori","RANDOM": str(random.randint(0,10))} server_socket =…
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Powershell/Sharepoint anti flooding script

Extreme powershell newbie here. I appreciate any and all help. I'm trying to put together a simple anti-flooding script to work with Sharepoint/Powershell. Need it to look at a datetime in a field and compare it to the current datetime then stop…
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