/slowloris-test

Slowloris is a denial-of-service attack program which allows an attacker to overwhelm a targeted server by opening and maintaining many simultaneous HTTP connections between the attacker and the target.

slowloris-test

1. Pull docker containers for test:

docker pull ekleziast/nginx_defense

docker pull ekleziast/nginx_attack

2. Run an attacking and defending containers:

docker run --name nginx_defense -d -p 80:80 ekleziast/nginx_defense

docker run --name nginx_attack -d -p 81:80 ekleziast/nginx_attack

3. Get IP address defending container:

docker inspect nginx_defense | grep IPAddress

4. Run next command to attack the container:

docker exec -ti nginx_attack slowloris {ip_address_nginx_defense_container} -s 10000000