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Or you could just look at the network traffic that the load balancers are generating to see where the majority of it is going. I wouldn't bother just taking th
by mike-cardwell 14y ago
Or you could just look at the network traffic that the load balancers are generating to see where the majority of it is going.
I wouldn't bother just taking the load balancers down. I'd go upstream of them to see where the traffic is going, and then take down those hosts at the same time as the load balancers.
- vidarh 14y agoFirst you would need to find the load balancer, which means you would first need to go after their router, then get the cooperation of a second country. Then you would need the cooperation of two more countries to get at the cloud providers... ... only for The Pirate Bay to spin up more instances elsewhere and point a domain or two at it.
- mike-cardwell 14y agoI was just pointing out a method that would be considerably more simple to pull off than a timing attack. I recognise that there are still numerous steps that would need to be taken to pull it off.
- subsystem 14y agoThe point is your still not taking anything of value, the site could be up on different servers and load balancers in a couple of hours, if not minutes. For the record, torrent sites have been doing this for years.