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I doubt it, most of these sites tend to be behind Akamai or some sort of similar CDN/reverse proxy network. This actually serves two purposes: 1) provides som
by mikey_p 15y ago
I doubt it, most of these sites tend to be behind Akamai or some sort of similar CDN/reverse proxy network.
This actually serves two purposes:
1) provides some security by sufficiently isolating the actual system from public access (it can be locked down to only serve requests from the CDN)
2) Prevent the type of DDoS described in the parent comment. Akamai is designed to handle the load from things like the Grammies or Superbowl.
For example, it's been documented that the White House uses Akamai extensively.
- srl 15y agocia.gov does not appear to be behind akamai or similar. Usually (always?), when a site is using akamai, a reverse DNS lookup for the site's IP yields some akamai domain name, rather than the original one. (This is the case for whitehouse.gov, for example.) This is /not/ the case for the CIA - they seem to do their own hosting. (root.ucia.gov and relay1.ucia.gov come up) So, it's plausible that the site is in fact run by a very small collection of servers, and that they were sitting ducks for the next red-bull-drinking teen wanting to "hack the CIA".