Configuring Rapid-Fail Protection in IIS 6.0 (IIS 6.0)

Configuring Rapid-Fail Protection in IIS 6.0 (IIS 6.0)

To escape from the Denial of Service Attack, YOU configure Rapid Fail protection. Like say it will disable your application pool incase your worker process crash 5 times with in 5 minutes.

To configure rapid-fail protection by using IIS Manager

1. In IIS Manager, expand the local computer, expand Application Pools, right-click the application pool, and then click Properties.

2. Click the Health tab, and select the Enable rapid-fail protection check box.

3. In the Failures box, type the number of worker process failures to be detected before disabling the worker process.

4. In the Time period box, type the number of minutes during which failure totals are accumulated.

5. Click OK.

You are done.

How to Add Mime type

You can also configure IIS to serve undefined file types by adding a wildcard character (*) MIME type. Do not use wildcard MIME-types on production servers.

To add a MIME type to a Web site or directory
1. In IIS Manager, right-click the Web site or Web site directory for which you want to add a MIME type, and click Properties.

2. Click the HTTP Headers tab.

3. Click MIME Types and Click New.

5. In the Extension box, type the file name extension.

6. In the MIME type box, type a valid MIME type. If you define a MIME type that has already been defined at a higher level, you are prompted to select the level where the MIME type should reside.

To create a MIME type for an undefined MIME type, type an asterisk (*) in the Extension box, and type application/octet-stream in the MIME type box.

To create a MIME type for a file without an extension, type a period (.) in the Extension box, and type your MIME type in the MIME type box.

7. Click OK.