[arch-general] IPTables DDoS

[Heiko Baums]

Am Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:43:45 +0530
schrieb Nilesh Govindarajan <lists at itech7.com>:

> Hi,
> Can someone tell me how to use IPTables to prevent DDoS attacks?
> I'm sure IPTables has the relevant modules (limit, recent I think)
> after reading some docs, but still in doubt about its implementation.

There's the --limit option against DoS attacks.

A good iptables tutorial with some example scripts is here:
http://www.frozentux.net/documents/iptables-tutorial/

Read at least the chapter "Limit match".

Heiko