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Sounds like just a lot of people on GPRS accessing a website :)

• derleth 15y ago
  Precisely. If you get too aggressive with combating this, you're locking out everyone whose machine or connection isn't up to some arbitrary technical standard. You might decide that dial-up no longer matters to you, but what about mobile?
  • fijal 15y ago
    my connection is sometimes below any arbitrary technical standard and I still want to get my bytes through if possible.
  • wisty 15y ago
    You can combat this a little with good architecture, by making sure the attacks won't stack. One part of the attack is finding a difficult-to-serve request. The other part is being very slow at receiving the response, keeping the request alive. The impact is multiplied if you keep dozens exceptionally high-memory processess alive while the clients slowly the response that those processors generated. If you have the right architecture, it won't matter if the difficult-to-serve request takes a long time to send - you backend processes it, sends the response to your web server, and frees the resources (not holding resources until the client is happy).
    • joshu 15y ago
      It's a good idea to make sure this happens anyway.