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block fake google bots [duplicate]

How could I block DDOS attacks with fake Google bots? I found 2 solutions on the net. But both seems to block also correct google bots. # Block fake google when it's not coming from their IP range's ...
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Is it normal for a VPS provider to claim DoS attacks often? [closed]

I have been using a well-known VPS service for over an year. Everything is good except one thing that once in a while, there will be some DoS attack. And when it happens, my server becomes ...
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DDOS and Blocking IP's [duplicate]

I'm experiencing issues with the server and noticed that i'm under some sort of a DDOS attack, i have blocked the IP's in the Firewall, yet the IP's show up in netstat. Is this normal? tcp 0 ...
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Simple anti DDoS protection in FreeBSD [duplicate]

I have a lot of request from data centers to my web server on FreeBSD and sometimes it've have a lot of performance problem with my web projects. Adding to IPFW list all IP's data centers is ...
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Restricting Access from BOTS

I would like to protect my server from too many hits from Bots. Considering a scenario, where in a server (physical) located in a private network and hitting my server continuously. Do i have a ...
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High inbound and outbound network traffic

Over the last day or so, one of instances has had a large amount of bandwidth consumed. This means that we have nearly exceeded our allowance (roughly the same amount inbound and outbound). Looking ...
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Too many open connections [duplicate]

I have a dedicated server with 32GB RAM. It works all fine till some punters came to ddos my server. I had really high uplink bandwidth usage (over 150Mbps). I looked at netstat with the following ...
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Use two or more IP addresses to prevent DoS attacks [duplicate]

N00b question But say I had a dedicated server with two IP addresses, and the software (We'll just use Apache as an example) was using both IP address to serve content, in the event of a DoS attack ...
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How to stop small DDOS attacks (443 port)?

On the server goes DDoS attack. ~# netstat -n -p | awk '{print $5}'|awk -F: '{print $1}' | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n10 48 109.229.9.53 47 31.207.244.130 45 87.252.227.83 ...
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Deny all "direct" traffic [duplicate]

My server is under heavy attack (maybe DDOS, I've no idea). I've checked the access logs (to put things into perspective, it's site with a daily 1000 visitors, nothing fancy): 78.176.175.208 - - [14/...
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DDoS. Are we that helpless? [duplicate]

With recent DDoS incidents related to wikileaks, I can't help but feel that pretty much all sites online are very vulnerable to such attacks. Visa, MasterCard (to name a few) have shut down because of ...
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How to block a DDoS attack? [duplicate]

My website is under a DDoS attack with bots. They are all coming in from different IPs so I can't block them all. Is it possible to make a CAPTCHA or a password just to connect to the site first for ...
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Iptables ratelimit UDP DOS attacks [duplicate]

Well, I've been a victim of Ddos attacks and I really can't figure out how to avoid it. On some machines it works, while on some it doesn't or probably I'm doing it wrong in some way, Attackers are ...
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Prevent scanning of the Apache's /default directory [duplicate]

I have two directories, under /var/www/vhosts: mydomain/ and default/. Files in default directory can be accessed using IP address of our server. I have checked Apache log and somebody is constantly,...
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Best Practice for captcha based protection against D.O.S to Nginx Proxy [duplicate]

The idea is explained here In simple words, Nginx Proxy plays the role of load balance and transmits the HTTP/HTTPS requests to servers. If the number of request times within a certain period from ...

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