Re: GoDaddy : DDoS : : Contact

["Roland Dobbins" <rdobbins () arbor net>]

On 3 Aug 2015, at 21:19, Stephen Satchell wrote:

> And any half-awake server operator would have turned on SYNCOOKIES a 
> long time ago.

I hate to tell you this, but a) SYN-cookies aren't a perfect response, 
as servers don't have infinite resources, and b) stateful firewalls go 
down *all the time* under DDoS attacks.

It might be a good idea to search the list archives for more on this 
phenomenon.

There's also information available in the Arbor WISRs; I think the first 
time we explicitly asked in the survey about stateful devices going down 
under DDoS was in 2010:

[Warning:  free registration required, but you can opt-out of email as 
part of the registration process]

<http://www.arbornetworks.com/resources/infrastructure-security-report>

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Roland Dobbins <rdobbins () arbor net>