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Re: limiting website access

Dan Shoop said:
> At 5:11 AM -0400 7/26/04, webmaster wrote:
>>Why not just use the Allow directive, it's easy to implement.
>>
>>Allow from 111.222.333.444 // allow from this ip only
>>
>>Allow from apache.org //Hosts whose names match, or end in, this
>>string are allowed access.
>>
>>see http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.1/mod/mod_authz_host.html for
>>more examples.
>
> Because you actually have to accept and log and process that traffic.
> In many cases you probably don't want this. Take for example the case
> of a exploited machine trying a DoS attack, you don't want that
> traffic. You probably also don't want to log a rogue machines hits.
>

This is one of the points I thought I made, but perhaps I didn't. Stopping
the traffic before a service has to deal with it will help that service
run faster.

Apple has a document at :<
http://developer.apple.com/server/optimizexserve.html> that goes through
optimizing Apache. It touches many topics and briefly states why using an
.htaccess can be inefficient.

Then again if you have a really low load server then it probably isn't a
problem.

josh


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Josh Wisenbaker, ACSA
Sr. Systems Engineer
ComputerTree Technologies
Winston-Salem
1-800-467-9820
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