via Paul (lovepig.org):
netstat -npa --inet | grep :80 | sed 's/:/ /g' | awk '{print $6}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | while read line; do one=`echo $line | awk '{print $1}'`; two=`echo $line | awk '{print $2}'`; if [ $one -gt 100 ];then iptables -I INPUT -s $two -j DROP; fi; done; iptables-save | grep -P '^-A INPUT' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | while read line; do oneIp=`echo $line | awk '{print $1}'`; twoIp=`echo $line | awk '{print $5}'`; if [ $oneIp -gt 1 ]; then iptables -D INPUT -s $twoIp -j DROP; fi; done
This one-liner is quite effective when tossed into a file and run as a cronjob once per minute. Any IP with more than 100 concurrent connections — which, quite honestly, is far more than any one IP should ever have on a standard webserver — will be blocked via iptables. This script as a cronjob is extremely effective dealing with small-to-midsize DDoSes (too much traffic for Apache/whatever service to handle, but not saturating the pipe).
