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Agreed, but the real problem is DDoS and nobody seems to know how to globally solve it. Fighting DDoS is expensive, so you see consolidation. It's well and good
by Meekro 6y ago
Agreed, but the real problem is DDoS and nobody seems to know how to globally solve it. Fighting DDoS is expensive, so you see consolidation. It's well and good to live in a tiny farming town but when raiders start attacking every week, those castle walls and guards start to look really appealing.
- labawi 6y agoThat's what we get for externalizing costs. It's not hard to track down sources, but network operators usually let it be, hence the incentives are probably counter-productive.
- schoolornot 6y agoIt's nice that Cloudflare provides their services for free but scrubbing has existed for a long time. With your own address space and an appropriate budget it's not difficult to have Cloudflare/Akamai/AWS announce your IP space with a higher weight than a direct path to your infrastructure. That will give you a little bit more fault tolerance for incidents like these.