Re: Here we go again

[Scott Solmonson <scosol () speedera com>]

What can you do? I would say "not much"-

Assuming you truly cannot separate out the "legitimate" requests-
Your choices are left to these:

Bleed off all traffic above the POP's allowed levels-
Increase capacity-
Employ a distributed caching system-

That's about it as far as I can see.

"Scott McGrath" wrote:
> What to we need to do to nip this one in the bud
>
> "Henry R. Linneweh" wrote:
> > If this is the case then lets kick butt now
> > before they have a chance to start
> >
> > ?Hactivists? plan DDoS Web attack
> > Electrohippies? software could be as effective as
> > distributed denial of service tools used in last
> > month?s Web attacks.
> > http://www.msnbc.com/news/380065.asp?cp1=1

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