Ok, Yahoo, Ebay, Amazon and Microsoft have all made essentially the same statement after being hit by a DDOS: "taken steps to improve protection of their networks from this type of attack."
My question is What are these steps, and why can't people take them before they experience a DDOS?
Is there some magic command I can put into my router to help protect my network from a DDOS, or is this just PR fluff to make it look like the corporation is doing something.
How aobut neither?
But in reality there is nothing you can do, but wait for the attacker to get bored and stop on their own.
This is the "state a fact that might be wrong to poll for dissent," approach? Some people have, or are working on, automated tools that try to detect-and-then-filter-at-the-border DDOS attacks when they happen. This is something to do that is not useless PR fluff that is not a magic command. --jhawk