Re: [squid-users] Clients running amok - what can one do?

On tor, 2008-10-30 at 09:25 +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> Ever so often we have clients (browsers) that are somehow (?) caught
> in a tight loop, resulting in a LOT of queries - one example
>
> 7996 10.39.108.198 http://cdn.media.zylom.com/images/site/whitelabel/promo/deluxefeature/button_up.gif
>
> (7996 requests per hour from 10.39.108.198 for
> http://cdn.media.zylom.com/images/site/whitelabel/promo/deluxefeature/button_up.gif)
>
> How can I automatically throttle such clients?
> I'm either looking for an iptables or squid solution.

Use iptables to blacklist the client until it behaves.

Regards
Henrik