How To Install slowloris on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install slowloris on CentOS 8. slowloris is Low bandwidth DoS tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install slowloris on CentOS 8.

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 CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install slowloris.

Install slowloris on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install slowloris using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install slowloris

Install slowloris on CentOS 8 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install slowloris using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install slowloris

How To Uninstall slowloris on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the slowloris package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove slowloris

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install slowloris on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.