From 33371ef786f1f42ffeef772deffbc65bfa94663e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: fyodor Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:20:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] add a web server scaling task --- todo/nmap.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/todo/nmap.txt b/todo/nmap.txt index e8aa18174..980a8c2f2 100644 --- a/todo/nmap.txt +++ b/todo/nmap.txt @@ -120,6 +120,12 @@ o Update more web content in real time (or near real-time, or at least o Maybe Nmap book building o Maybe the generated files in nmap.org/data/ +o [INFRASTRUCTURE] Improve our main web server http configuration to + better handle high load situations and DoS attacks. As part of + this, we may have to raise the max client limits. But then there is + a risk of running out of RAM, which can be even worse. So we need + to figure out a good balance. + o Maybe we should rename dns-brute to dns-brute-enum since it is so different from our traditional brute force authentication cracking -brute scripts?