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When Im editing the Ports of Apache for exampe to 53 then it works.
And then another day it is again Offline.
Logfile says:
[Sun Nov 15 14:56:05 2009] [warn] Server ran out of threads to serve requests. Consider raising the ThreadsPerChild setting
What can I do?
However, to avoid wasting time, you need to 'prove' that this is actually a DDOS before going down that road. It could just be a recently-changed script that is holding connections open too long (or forever). Make sure your KeepAlive is set to a reasonable time limit, as well.
If you're hosted commercially, ask your host for assistance; They'd be the ones who could put a packet sniffer on your "wire" to see the DDOS-related requests, and set the firewall to black-hole them. Otherwise, dig into 'wireshark' and other packet sniffers, any firewalls available for your OS/server package, and plan to spend some time investigating.
Jim
