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Re: one client "floods" nginx errorlog

Maxim Dounin
November 25, 2020 09:46AM
Hello!

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 05:46:43PM +0100, A. Schulze wrote:

> I run a nginx instance handling only TLS1.2 and TLS1.3.
> Now I noticed an remote client hammering (Ok, once per second) with an SSLv2 connection an thus filling the log:
>
> 2020/11/24 17:37:08 [info] 383#0: *11 SSL_do_handshake() failed (SSL: error:14209102:SSL routines:tls_early_post_process_client_hello:unsupported protocol) while SSL handshaking, client: 87.138.121.xx, server: 0.0.0.0:443
>
> That's annoying.
> beside blocking that IP in a firewall, is there a smart way to just prevent the log entry?

Much like any log lines easily triggered by misbehaving clients,
these can be hidden by using higher log level, such as "notice",
see http://nginx.org/r/error_log.

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one client "floods" nginx errorlog

A. Schulze November 24, 2020 11:50AM

Re: one client "floods" nginx errorlog

Maxim Dounin November 25, 2020 09:46AM



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