From 6418bf017c414e3d8597f3763192330a245b8f8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Markus=20M=C3=A4kel=C3=A4?= Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 13:24:37 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] MXS-2414: Document max_auth_failures --- Documentation/Getting-Started/Configuration-Guide.md | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/Getting-Started/Configuration-Guide.md b/Documentation/Getting-Started/Configuration-Guide.md index d54451735..a5a626153 100644 --- a/Documentation/Getting-Started/Configuration-Guide.md +++ b/Documentation/Getting-Started/Configuration-Guide.md @@ -950,6 +950,17 @@ configurations volatile (i.e. they are lost when maxscale is restarted), use the current runtime state of MaxScale. This makes problem analysis easier if an unexpected outage happens. +#### `max_auth_failures` + +The maximum number of authentication failures that are tolerated before a host +is temporarily blocked. The default value is 10 failures. After a host is +blocked, connections from it are rejected for 60 seconds. + +Note that the configured value is not a hard limit. The number of tolerated +failures is between `max_auth_failures` and `threads * max_auth_failures` where +`max_auth_failures` is the configured value of this parameter and `threads` is +the number of configured threads. + ### REST API Configuration The MaxScale REST API is an HTTP interface that provides JSON format data