7 Dec
2010
7 Dec
'10
11:26 p.m.
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.