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2.6 billion requests per hour will do that to you
by random_rr 12y ago
2.6 billion requests per hour will do that to you
- brador 12y agoRoute them through a cached captcha page. Or just call cloudflare.
- tibbon 12y agoHaven't sites been DDoS'd that were using Cloudflare? Its good, but not a magic bullet.
- david_shaw 12y agoYeah, but my understanding is that it helps a lot. CloudFlare masks the actual IP address of the web site, and distributes the load through the CloudFlare platform. It's still possible to overload that capacity, but it's a lot more than what any standalone web server can take. Furthermore, the web server itself will stay online, as it isn't actually getting hit by the flood of requests.
- eli 12y agoServing a captcha page is more work than serving a static page.
- monort 12y agoYou can block with firewall IPs of users, who didn't solve captcha. You will get only SYNs from incoming connection requests then.
- mikey_p 12y agoYou don't really understand the distributed part of DDoS. I've had services taken down my attacks and when doing a post mortem we could see the increase in traffic, but when accounting for frequency, our office was still the main user.