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How do you do that? The nature of DDOS is to send multiple requests from multiple locations. It's not easy to counter this if you can't scale up as big as the D
by hartator 10y ago
How do you do that? The nature of DDOS is to send multiple requests from multiple locations. It's not easy to counter this if you can't scale up as big as the DDOS is. If you start banning IPs, you are going to also ban legitimate users. (search for "tor and cloudflare")
- kyledrake 10y agoDDoS attacks are not the result of millions of people individually attacking a site, they are almost always the result of small criminal organizations that are controlling botnets that do the attack on compromised systems for-profit. They offer these attack services via market web sites. It's highly likely that this person used one of these markets to execute the attack against the Internet Archive. It's not easy to go after them, but neither is it easy to go after CP peddlers, and yet we still go after them and arrests are made. It's one part of a many-faceted strategy that will be needed to get some control over a problem that is clearly getting worse.