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Xylene_UK_11374
Nimbostratus
Nimbostratuspyloris help to block using LTM / iRules only
Looking for information about mitigating attacks made by PyLoris, a similar tool to Slowloris. Do the irule suggestions on the F5 site for mitigating Slowloris apply to this tool as well? If not,...
Xylene_UK_11374Nimbostratus
Nimbostratus
PyLoris is SlowLoris rewritten in Python to provide a couple of tweaks. Essentially, any setup that causes the BigIP to read data from the client before it opens a connection to a pool member, and times out idle/slow connections in a reasonable time then both CLowLoris and PyLoris are defeated.
The existing iRules specified in Solution 10260 will mitigate this attack for LTM.