Denial of service prevention

[Igor Sysoev]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 11:41:33AM +0700, Shark Fin Soup wrote:

> Is there an equivalence of mod_evasive (for Lighttpd) that I can use?
> 
> I run Nginx for Rails app, using Nginx to serve static content and  
> Mongrel to serve Rails content. It works very well. But I get the  
> occasional DOS that I could divert with mod_evasive. I would like the  
> same for Nginx.

The ngx_http_limit_zone allows similar functionality:
http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpLimit_zoneModule


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