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What happened to the Hubot command to redirect the attack to the contracted provider? Surely they can handle it.
by iancarroll 13y ago
What happened to the Hubot command to redirect the attack to the contracted provider? Surely they can handle it.
- namuol 13y agoThis isn't as simple as it sounds; they'd need to identify DDoS traffic and reroute, while still allowing "legitimate" users through. But this may not be the sort of brute-force bandwidth DDoS that this was designed to handle either -- it could be a more targeted attack to existing bottlenecks in GitHub's architecture.
- iancarroll 13y agoThey made praising comments about the service last time.