[27741] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Here we go again
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Solmonson)
Fri Mar 10 17:28:27 2000
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:22:00 -0800
From: Scott Solmonson <scosol@speedera.com>
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What can you do? I would say "not much"-
Assuming you truly cannot separate out the "legitimate" requests-
Your choices are left to these:
Bleed off all traffic above the POP's allowed levels-
Increase capacity-
Employ a distributed caching system-
That's about it as far as I can see.
"Scott McGrath" wrote:
>
> What to we need to do to nip this one in the bud
>
> "Henry R. Linneweh" wrote:
>>
>> If this is the case then lets kick butt now
>> before they have a chance to start
>>
>> ?Hactivists? plan DDoS Web attack
>> Electrohippies? software could be as effective as
>> distributed denial of service tools used in last
>> month?s Web attacks.
>> http://www.msnbc.com/news/380065.asp?cp1=1
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Scott Solmonson
Speedera Networks Inc.
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