Question about HTTP DDOS attacks.

From: eaxat_private
Date: Fri Mar 15 2002 - 20:13:27 PST

  • Next message: Hugo van der Kooij: "Re: Question about HTTP DDOS attacks."

    For the last couple days, one of our client's virtual-hosts on one of our webservers has been DDOSed with
    tons of HTTP requests composed of:
    
    GET / HTTP/1.1
    Host: example.com
    
    
    I wrote a quick script to firewall any client that makes this type of request, and already have about 3,000 unique ip addresses in my input filters.  They're all window boxes from what I can tell.  They coming in from lots of differnet networks.
    
    Our client's website does not get very many hits per day -- and a few thousand zombies seems like an 
    awful lot to throw at a relatively unpopular/small website for a small, locally owned business.
    
    Is an attack with a few thousand zombies considered commonplace nowdays?
    
    Attached is a current list of attacking computers.
    
    TIA
    
    
    
    
    

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