SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDLING DENIAL OF SERVICE SERVER ATTACKS

摘要

A method for facilitating client (309) connections with a server (306) includes receiving a client connection request (502), determining whether a connection queue is full (504), clearing at least a portion of the connection queue if it is full (516), and placing the received client connection request (506). Optionally, a security routine is invoked (518) when it is determined that the connection queue (333) is full. In a particular embodiment, the methods of the present invention are performed by a queue-clearing communication module (422) for a proxy server (332) embedded in an adapter card (308) for an Internet web server.