block dos attack nginx behind cloudflare and loadbalancer

[Andrew Alexeev]

Hi,

On Mar 28, 2012, at 11:34 AM, ilmetu wrote:

> i have 4 webserver behind cloudflare and a loadbalancer, nginx is the
> web browser, php-fpm manage the php pages. i don't know how to block a
> simple dos attack ...
> 
> i'm able to detect this attack by use the http_limit_req module from
> nginx http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpLimitReqModule
> 
> but this is not block the attack at all, yes can mitigate but webservers
> are hit and hit again, and php-fpm goes to 80% and in a minute the
> website is unreachable.
> 
> i'm trying to find a way to block this kind of request.
> 
> i know how to block certain ip address or certain useragent with nginx
> but i want to do it automatically. I think that i cannot block the ip
> with iptables because the request come from the loadbalancer :( but i'm
> still able to detect the correct ip address with the set_real_ip_from
> and real_ip_header X-Forwarded-For with nginx.
> 
> i have the log file (error.log) filled with the correct ip address as
> you can see:
> 
> 2012/03/27 18:34:02 [error] 31234#0: *1283 limiting connections by zone
> "staging", client: XX.XX.XX.XXX, server: www.xxxxxxx.com, request: "HEAD
> /it HTTP/1.1", host: "www.xxxxxxx.com"
> 
> Someone have an idea and can teach me how to block automatically this
> ip?

Can you show your limit_conn/limit_req configuration?

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_limit_conn_module.html
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_limit_req_module.html

> 
> thanks in advance!
> 
> Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,224517,224517#msg-224517
> 
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