Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Dobbins, Roland <rdobbins () arbor net> wrote:
> On Jan 10, 2010, at 10:05 AM, Roger Marquis wrote:

> > Have you noticed how easily Drupal servers go down with corrupt MyISAM tables?  How would S/RTBH and/or flow-spec 
> > protect against that?
>
> We're talking about DDoS mitigation in order to keep the servers up and running, so that they don't go down 
> ungracefully and corrupt anything in the first place.

have you noticed how putting your DB and WEB server on the same
hardware is a bad plan?

separate the portions of the pie... only let the attack break the
minimal portion of your deployment. Use the right tool in the right
place.

-chris