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| author |   Menno Duursma <druiloor@zonnet.nl> | 2010-05-11 20:01:41 +0200 |
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| committer |   Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org> | 2010-05-11 20:01:41 +0200 |
| commit | 979595b4a729f63a3266f095dbcbf4c8ae57f3cb (patch) | |
| tree | 3154c2261d5a8e8a86644a0da9a9893659aef750 /network/phrel/README | |
| parent | a9c294f0eab8cacb557047512ab271e0b2375517 (diff) | |
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network/phrel: Added to 12.0 repository
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diff --git a/network/phrel/README b/network/phrel/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e2011592b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/network/phrel/README @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +PHREL is a Per Host RatE Limiter. + +It will track the rate of incoming traffic to a server and insert +insert a chain into iptables when a configured threshold is crossed. +The inserted chain may either rate limit or block the offending host +for a period of time. + +It is particularly well suited to protecting nameservers (DNS) from +random flood requests. + +Please see: phreld(1) and phreld.conf(5) for post-install configuration, +and /etc/rc.d/rc.local for daemon auto-start. |