18 May
2011
18 May
'11
8:54 a.m.
On May 18, 2011, at 7:42 PM, Rogelio wrote:
This solution would need to be tied into the authentication services so authenticated users hit the gateway.
So the attackers can just hammer the authentication subsystem and take it down, instead? ;> By going the 'authentication' route in the sense you mean it, you'll make it even more trivially easy to DDoS the Web servers than is possible without such a system. <http://www.mail-archive.com/nanog@nanog.org/msg17914.html> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> The basis of optimism is sheer terror. -- Oscar Wilde