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Minor nit - unless he was using an EC2 cluster or something, this would be a regular old-fashioned DOS, not a DDOS. It's something of a condemnation of YouSendI
by cheald 15y ago
Minor nit - unless he was using an EC2 cluster or something, this would be a regular old-fashioned DOS, not a DDOS. It's something of a condemnation of YouSendIt's software and NOC that they weren't able to mitigate a huge number of connections from a single IP. Leveraging a botnet against someone is worlds apart from running a high-concurrency ab test.
- tomkarlo 15y agoYou're right... I was kind of assuming that it would take more than a single computer running AB to do this to any service of this size, but there's nothing in the article to support that.