Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?

["Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>]

On Dec 7, 2010, at 11:26 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> > > But as you and others have pointed out, not a lot of defense against
> > > DDoS these days besides horsepower and anycast. :-)
> >
> > Not just anycast.  I said distributed architecture.  There are more ways to distribute than anycast.
>
> The content-side can be duplicated, replicated, distributed.  On the
> eyeball-side its not as easy to replicate things.  DDOS against user
> networks doesn't generate as much publicity, outside of the gammer world, but is also a problem.
>
> Other than trying to hide your real address, what can be done to prevent
> DDOS in the first place.

Don't piss people off on IRC? :)

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TTFN,
patrick