ddos defence?

[Joe Zeff]

On 01/17/2012 07:40 PM, Dave Stevens wrote:
> I have a vps that has been repeatedly hit with a ddos attack. The ISP
> has given me new IP addresses several times but every time I update the
> DNS records the attack resumes within hours. This is not yet a
> production site but I need it to be, sooner rather than later.
>
> Can anyone suggest reading or strategies for dealing with this?
>
> Dave
>

Have you considered using Fail2ban?  See 
http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page