<div dir="ltr"><div>Thats an interesting figure, certainly worthy of consideration. I am only interested in performance savings, the memory used is negligible as this particular limit takes the brunt of quite a few attacks (insecure Wordpress blogs are quickly becoming the bane of my existence).</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am not yet sure if there is room for gains here yet, was mainly curious if thought had been placed in this area (e.g existing patches) for testing prior to a thorough investigation.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Thanks,</div><div>Mathew</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Igor Sysoev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:igor@sysoev.ru" target="_blank">igor@sysoev.ru</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div class=""><div>On Mar 13, 2014, at 12:43 , SplitIce wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">
<div dir="ltr">I guess our configuration is a but of an edge case pretty much every server serves at-least one /24 (with the intention to raise this to /22 eventually).</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div>/22, that is, 1024 server addresses. You will save 32K.</div>
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<div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Igor Sysoev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:igor@sysoev.ru" target="_blank">igor@sysoev.ru</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div><div>On Mar 13, 2014, at 11:09 , SplitIce wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">
<div dir="ltr">Has anyone put any thought into the possibility of a $binary_server_addr variable?<br><br>Sometimes its quite useful to limit certain events by server_addr instead of the client address (e.g to limit requests made by certain UA's or other events).</div>
</blockquote><br></div></div><div>You can use $server_addr. The binary form of $remote_addr saves memory since there is a lot of remote addresses.</div>The number of server addresses is much less so there is no sense to introduce another variable.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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