[cups.bugs] CUPS server flooded...
Michael R Sweet
msweet at apple.com
Mon Apr 20 13:16:13 PDT 2009
About the only thing we have is the MaxClientsPerHost directive; you
can set it fairly low (4 or 5) without affecting normal usage.
Beyond that, the iptables hack is probably the best (and I've used it
myself for other similar issues over the years...)
On Apr 20, 2009, at 2:21 AM, CLW wrote:
> Hi,
> We have had an issue with our cups server being flooded with
> connections from a workstation using wrong auth details. This has
> made the server crawl for good few hours.
> We have blocked the offending workstation via iptables.
> Do you guys know of any flood protection in cups we could apply?
> Thanks in advance
>
> CLW
>
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