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Hasn't DDoS protection always been a small misnomer? You can't really protect against it, you can only have enough bandwidth to handle everything.
by 411111111111111 4y ago
Hasn't DDoS protection always been a small misnomer?
You can't really protect against it, you can only have enough bandwidth to handle everything.
- oogali 4y agoThe root of the issue has always been the definition of DDoS. Network engineers define it as one thing: a massive amount of abnormal traffic generated by a large number of sources (distributed) that you need adequate bandwidth to soak up without impacting normal traffic. Software engineers define it as another thing: unwanted traffic that causes resource exhaustion and should be blocked. They're almost always thinking of DoS but refer to it as DDoS. That's why when TFA talks about DDoS, the example immediately attached to it is rate limiting at what to me (network engineering background) seems like an absurdly low limit (1 request every 5 seconds).
- bee_rider 4y ago“Mitigation” would probably be a better name (and sounds fancier, but maybe not as definitive).