full-disclosure - Re: how to detect DDoS attack through HTTP response analysis(throuput)

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Message-ID: <BANLkTimnouTQoRPzveDTY0goWb4eLGMfbg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:40:05 +0200
From: Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@...il.com>
To: coderman <coderman@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, pen-test@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: how to detect DDoS attack through HTTP
	response analysis(throuput)

2011/6/29 coderman <coderman@...il.com>:
> 2011/6/26 김무성 <kimms@...osec.co.kr>:
>> ...
>> I'm looking for meterials or information, research about that how to detect
>> DDoS attack through HTTP response analysis(throuput).
>
> you're asking the wrong question.
>
> instead of asking "How can I automagically detect exploitation of my
> shitty app via HTTP Resp. codes"
>
> ask: "Why is my webapp so shitty that any number of arbitrary requests
> lead to resource exhaustion?"
>

because fetching(or imitating to fetch) the result is always less
resource intense than generating it?
o_O

Tyrael

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