How To Install slowloris on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install slowloris on Fedora 34.
What is slowloris
Slowloris is basically an HTTP Denial of Service attack that affects threaded servers.
We can use yum or dnf to install slowloris on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install slowloris.
Install slowloris on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install slowloris using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install slowloris
Install slowloris on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install slowloris using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install slowloris
How To Uninstall slowloris on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the slowloris package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove slowloris
slowloris Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/slowloris
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install slowloris on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
