hi all - can anybody think of a good way to test my DDoS firewall and defenses? it seems lately i have been getting hit pretty hard. i wish to be able to simulate a DoS attack to see if my csf-firewall stands up to the challenge.
Howdy,
Benchmarking software can do a pretty good job at also looking like a denial of service attack.
A simple one that most servers already have installed is called “ab”, or “Apache Bench”. It comes with Apache, and can be used to “hammer” on Apache to assist in testing.
-Eric
thank you eric. i would think something like apache bench might be interesting since the tester and the test subject would be on the same IP number - i wonder if that is a fair test ?
your benchmarking software suggestion lead me to this:
https://code.google.com/p/slowhttptest/
this looks interesting.
Howdy,
Well, you don’t need to run it from the same machine as you want to test… you can install Apache bench on another server, on a desktop, or anywhere you like, and run it from there.
Apache bench simply opens http connections to the server you tell it to access.
-Eric