The "connflood" Module (v3)

Description

This module throttles excessive connections to the server.

Configuration

To load this module use the following <module> tag:

<module name="connflood">

<connflood>

The <connflood> tag defines settings about how the connflood module should behave. This tag can only be defined once.

Name	Type	Default Value	Description
bootwait	Duration	2m (since 3.4) 10s (3.0.0 to 3.3.0)	The duration to wait after starting up before connections should be throttled.
maxconns	Number	None	The maximum number of connections to allow before throttling.
period	Duration	None	The duration after which the connection counter is reset.
timeout	Duration	None	The duration to disallow connections for after passing the throttling threshold.
quitmsg	Text	None	The message to quit throttled users with.

Example Usage

<connflood bootwait="2m"
           maxconns="3"
           period="30s"
           timeout="30s"
           quitmsg="Throttled">

<connect>

This module extends the core <connect> tags with the following fields:

Name	Type	Default Value	Description
useconnflood	Boolean	yes	New in v3.9.0! Whether to throttle users in this class when excessive connections are being made to the server.

Example Usage

Disables connection flood throttling for users in the BNC class:

<connect name="BNC"
         ...
         useconnflood="no">