[MUD-Dev] DDoS

[Matthew Mihaly]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Ola Fosheim [iso-8859-1] Gr=F8stad wrote:

> Some IRC maintainers are talking about dropping the service because of
> denial of service attacks (DoS), the equivalent of link-spamming.  There
> is also something called a distributed DoS (DDoS), which means that the
> attack comes from more than one source, maybe thousands of sources. Thus
> blocking the attack is difficult.
>=20
> I wonder what you guys are doing to protect yourself from this.  Have
> you thought about how much damage a banned phreak could cause you? Maybe
> even put you completely out of business?

I live in fear of such a thing. We have no plan on how to deal with it
either. If they can bring down major internet sites, they can bring us
down.

--matt




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