DoS attack in the wild

[Neelesh Gurjar]

Hello,
Can anybody tell how to test DoS attack on webserver please ?

Regards
NeeleshG

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Cliff Wells <cliff at develix.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 21:45 +0300, luben karavelov wrote:
> > A DoS attack against number of http servers is available and has hit
> > slashdot today:
> >
> http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/06/19/1243203/Attack-On-a-Significant-Flaw-In-Apache-Released
> >
> > Out of the box nginx is also vulnerable (I have tested it on latest 0.7
> > installation).
>
> What were the results of your tests?   I can see Apache being vulnerable
> to this, given the amount of resources it requires per connection, but
> Nginx should be much less susceptible.   The only resource I'd expect to
> see exhausted might be sockets, which can be tuned at the OS level.
>
> Cliff
>
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NeeleshG

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