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Re:Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal ... by codezero on Thursday January 19, 2012 @07:41PM (#3487713)
They might manage to fill the connection limit for apache on each system (I think this is default to 256?).
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Re:Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal ... by oinksoft on Thursday January 19, 2012 @09:49PM (#3488063)
It's not very likely that those sites are using Apache on the front lines.
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Re:Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal ... by bmelton on Thursday January 19, 2012 @10:45PM (#3488215)
They are.
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Re:Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal ... by cpeterso on Friday January 20, 2012 @12:50AM (#3488532)
mpaa.org is using nginx/1.0.5, but the other sites do indeed seem to be Apache servers.
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Re:Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal ... by baby on Friday January 20, 2012 @04:16AM (#3488877)
This! Apache is the first casualty when attacked by DOS. Default is way lower than 256 I think... You can change that parameter but it kills the optimization.
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