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aufi edited this page Feb 14, 2012 · 14 revisions

FAQ

What should ANDDOS solve a what not?

It should restrict DDOS attacks on HTTP level. So it proceeds HTTP request on a webserver and declines "bad" ones.

Why is the filter implemented as a nginx module?

Because it is quite fast and nginx provides many useful functions.

Does ANDDOS based on behavioral approach?

Yes. It proceeds beside of an absolute number of requests also their distribution etc. and an algorithm can learn from a traffic.

Behavioral filtering is buzzword, because non-behavioral approaches have no future.

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