Re: Bad Idea of The Week: 'Friendly Botnets'

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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- -- Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> > On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:36:59 PDT, Blue Boar said:
> > Possibly more of a bad name. I don't see anything inherently evil in
> > distributed front-end proxies. Doubtful how workable it is, though.
>
> Am I misreading the fine article, or are they saying it's harder for
> a botnet to DDoS a server if it's load-balanced across a shitload of
> front-end servers, preferably geographically diverse?

Similar in nature to how an Akamai-zed presence can basically allow
the Akamai CDN to "absorb" a DDoS.

- - ferg

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