[Zope] Is Zope susceptible to denial of service attacks?

Lennart Regebro lennart@regebro.nu
Mon, 05 May 2003 15:02:48 +0200


Toni wrote:
> Is zope suceptible to dos attacks? 

Yes. Or at least, it is possible to create special DOS attacks that 
would work on Zope. I'm not sure how susceptible it is to generic 
attacks. Others might know.

> Or is better to run behind Apache/Squid?

If you are nervous about DOS attacks, then by all means put something in 
front of it. The performance hit is minor.