What can you do? I would say "not much"- Assuming you truly cannot separate out the "legitimate" requests- Your choices are left to these: Bleed off all traffic above the POP's allowed levels- Increase capacity- Employ a distributed caching system- That's about it as far as I can see. "Scott McGrath" wrote:

What to we need to do to nip this one in the bud

"Henry R. Linneweh" wrote:

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If this is the case then lets kick butt now before they have a chance to start

?Hactivists? plan DDoS Web attack Electrohippies? software could be as effective as distributed denial of service tools used in last month?s Web attacks. http://www.msnbc.com/news/380065.asp?cp1=1

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