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[nycphp-talk] Urgent: Help in Defending Attack

Randal Rust randalrust at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 11:08:02 EST 2008


On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Dan Cech <dcech at phpwerx.net> wrote:

>  To me this doesn't really sound like an attack.  Unless you're getting
>  thousands of hits from the same IP

they are different IPs, and when i do a lookup on many of them, i get
*invalid IP range* on them.

> it's more likely that your site has
>  just reached the point where its resource requirements exceed the
>  capacity allocated to it.

i do believe that is a possibility.

>  Are you using persistent connections?

honestly, i can't say. we use the adodb abstraction layer to do all of
our database calls. my understanding was that adodb terminated the
connection when it is finished doing it's job.

> Are you on a shared (vhost) box?

dedicated.

-- 
Randal Rust
R.Squared Communications
www.r2communications.com



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