Re: Help to defend from DOS web attacks

[Guillermo Calvo <guillermocalvo () datacenter1 com>]

Emanuel Marufo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Recently somebody attack my web server, and i thinking defend from that.
>
> I readed the next article:
> http://www.quadrunner.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=151&Itemid=2
>
> but i want to know if can config a snort/portsentry to block attackers ip's.
>
>
>   
You can block ips from snort or mod_evasive (most depends of your 
firewall), but it won't help so much in a real DDOS attack, is just 
useful in small attacks,