I've heard this is a good program to use to stop some DOS attacks but I'm wondering what is required to have it work properly. What is it checking to be able to detect and ban the IP's? Does it require a firewall to be installed?
I've disabled the CustomLog and BytesLog for my domain because they would grow so large that my server could never rotate them.
I tried to find out what is required for it to run, but couldn't find much on it other than where to download it: http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/mod_evasive/ and how to install it:
I've disabled the CustomLog and BytesLog for my domain because they would grow so large that my server could never rotate them.
I tried to find out what is required for it to run, but couldn't find much on it other than where to download it: http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/mod_evasive/ and how to install it:
Code:
cd /usr/local/src
wget http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/mod_evasive/mod_evasive_1.10.1.tar.gz
tar -xzf mod_evasive*
cd mod_evasive*
/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs -cia mod_evasive.c