From 2981fe9eb707b340107b5131018805ee2a469950 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Barton <alex@barton.de>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 21:41:01 +0000
Subject: New configuration option "MaxConnectionsIP".

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 NEWS | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'NEWS')

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c55b2b4e..20f861c5 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
 
 ngIRCd CVS-HEAD
 
+  - New configuration variable "MaxConnectionsIP" to limit the number of
+    simultaneous connections from a single IP that the server will accept.
+    This configuration options lowers the risk of denial of service attacks
+    (DoS), the default is 5 connections per client IP.
   - Added new configuration variable "Listen" to bind all listening
     sockets of the server to a single IP address.
        
@@ -170,4 +174,4 @@ ngIRCd 0.0.1, 31.12.2001
 
 
 -- 
-$Id: NEWS,v 1.58 2003/09/11 12:05:28 alex Exp $
+$Id: NEWS,v 1.59 2003/11/05 21:41:01 alex Exp $
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