Some Technical Countermeasures

(For the mirrors hosting the home page only; the "real" site at veritas2 kept its original config, mostly)

Added %V to Apache log config, noted Host: header used
mod_dosevasive
Linux syncookies worked splenderifously
Simple cron job every few minutes to look for many SYN_SENTs from same source IP, firewall off
Logged initial attacks and kept standard iptables counters
Posted results to the web to coordinate efforts
Share information with Nizkor.org which was similarly targeted

The Holocaust History Project and Rich Graves

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