ddos defence?

Dave Stevens geek at uniserve.com
Wed Jan 18 03:56:13 UTC 2012


Quoting Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us>:

> 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

Not familiar with it but will check it out, thanks

Dave


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