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If you have a botnet attacking you, then it's a whole different story anyways. Those can get your services down easily regardless of what attack they use or wha

by eis 16y ago

If you have a botnet attacking you, then it's a whole different story anyways. Those can get your services down easily regardless of what attack they use or what protocol is in play (HTTP,FTP,SMTP, you name it) so the botnet argument does not really hold here. A proxy in front does not help if it does not limit per IP connections as an attacker can just use up all filedescriptors or connection slots. It just ups the ante a bit but not much. 10k connections can very easily be created from any DSL/cable connection let alone a server in a datacenter.

btilly 16y ago
For most websites, sure. But the big boys have to deal with botnets all the time, and (mostly) manage to remain up. They need to figure this sort of thing out.
- eis 16y ago
  It still is not specific to this attack.
  - btilly 16y ago
    Their problem is still not specific to this attack. But they need to figure out how to handle every kind of attack that will come, including this one.