| Paul Jungwirth on 9 Aug 2012 14:55:12 -0700 |
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I'm a developer, not a sysadmin, so forgive my ignorance: is turning aside a DDOS really that easy? I've hear other smart people in IT say that there's actually very little you can do, and there are huge sites that have suffered extended downtime because of a DDOS attack. I guess the difference in your proposed DNS solution is that your site is still unavailable, so the DDOS has been successful. Paul On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Eric at Lucii.org <eric@lucii.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08/09/2012 05:39 PM, Douglas Muth wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Eric at Lucii.org <eric@lucii.org> wrote: >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> >>> Is there a "sink" somewhere where the domain can be pointed that will simply absorb or ignore the DDOS attack? Perhaps if there is a DDOS attack we could just de-register the domain until the DDOS stops? Other ideas? >>> >> >> 127.0.0.1 >> >> But I wouldn't consider changing DNS unless such an attack happens. Also keep in mind what your TTL is, since it will take at least that long for the changes to propagate. >> >> -- Doug > > Doug: > > Yeah, thanks for the TTL reminder - we'd better shorten that now in preparation. > Love the idea of 127.0.0.1 - that means the DDOS bots attack themselves :-) > > Thanks, > Eric > - -- > # Eric Lucas > # > # "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth > # And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings... > # -- John Gillespie Magee Jr > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlAkLzMACgkQ2sGpvXQrZ/6wVQCfaGGwiw6ddauCxTePorO9iOft > a2gAnikmmTqq+YF4uh6rEO7Bxe/c4faZ > =sGPQ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- _________________________________ Pulchritudo splendor veritatis. ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug