2005-11-13
Patents - can you keep them to yourself?
2005-10-23
SVN repo is up + mod_ip_count is back
a while back my SVN server which I hosted on webperf went down, and with it access to mod_ip_count, a module I wrote a while back to limit access to a server farm utilizing memcached since then I've had a couple of requests for it.. so I brought up a SVN server to host them. for some reason the SVN rpm I found didn't work on ...
2005-10-03
How long will phone+cable companies be in business for?
with Telstra, the local Australian telco about to sell the 3rd tranche of it's shares to the australian public. I'm just wondering how long Telcos in general will be around for in their current shape. For eon's most of their 'competitive' advantage was the massive infrastructure they had in place for the 'last mile' to your house. In order to get phone, DSL, or cable ...
2005-08-26
Why IP based authorization/tracking schemes don't work
Recently I've seen in a couple of places where people are basing their authentication/limits on the IP number of the caller, so that the link/cookie they provide will only work from a given IP. The most recent place I saw this is the SoC project I am mentoring to limit bandwidth, and in 2 streaming network providers. here are some reasons why ip numbers shouldn ...
2004-12-09
announce: mod_ip_count
Thanks to the hard work of Paul Querna (aka chipig) on apr_memcache, and memcached a distributed caching server.
I have developed a 'DoS' prevention apache2 module. It works by restricting the number of requests that a given client can issue to a server pool.
here it is: mod_ip_count
If there is some interest I'll start a mailing list/bugtracker etc.
WARNING: it hasn't been tested in ...