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Can anyone explain how blocking incoming access to a server reduces the affect of that server's outgoing traffic (presumably required if it was participating in
by zargon 17y ago
Can anyone explain how blocking incoming access to a server reduces the affect of that server's outgoing traffic (presumably required if it was participating in a DOS attack)?
Or are they saying that people who happened to visit img.4chan.org were also participating in a DOS attack... in which case, people who participate in DOS attacks also probably visit google.com, so lets just block access to google.
Smells fishy.
- jf 17y agoIt's possible that the DOS attack was coming from forged IP addresses which the 4chan server was responding to.
- alexgartrell 17y agoThey probably blocked the IP traffic rather than the TCP traffic. That way, the just discard headers that say to/from: 4chan TO do it the way you're suggesting (via TCP stream) would suggest they maintain a state machine of their entire user base, knowing who initiates connections to whom. This would require a whole friggin' lot more resources.