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Ask HN: Max number of requests/s that have been taking down websites recently?
I would assume the answer is some multiple of the total number of zombies found in the largest botnet.<p>Apparently reddit started to quiver when they hit 400,000 requests per second in their DDoS the other day as seen here: http://i.imgur.com/0quYBdV.png
- mschuster91 14y agoYou can't answer this question directly. There are a multitude of different DDoS attacks (SYN flooding, full TCP connections with HTTP GETing computationally expensive pages, overloading single-points-of-failure, DNS amplification etc) used.