Hi Santino,
On Thursday, October 27, 2005, at 04:15AM, Santino <email@hidden> wrote:
>At 19:58 -0500 26-10-2005, Chilton Webb wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm calling it a 'quasi' DoS because I'm not sure exactly what to
>>call this. It seems someone has a piece of software that is
>>performing thousands of connections per hour to my BSD sockets-based
>>server. They're just connecting though, and not transmitting
>>anything once they connect. No harm has come to the server, it's
>>just making it difficult to use it for its intended purpose.
>>
>>What is the correct course of action in a case like this?
>Use a firewall and reject connection from that ip.
>Santino
That's what I was hoping to do, but can it be done directly from my app? As I understand it, ip6fw is the firewall for OSX. Assuming 192.0.0.3 is the remote IP address and 9878 is the port I'm using, is this the correct syntax for this?
ip6fw add deny tcp from 192.0.0.3 9878
Thank you,
-Chilton
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