There's an article about this http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6749 Also here http://www.linux-sec.net/DDOS/
2010/1/11 Luther Goh Lu Feng <[email protected]> > Dear friends, > > > I have a friend who needs some assistance to counter some DDoS attacks. Is > anyone able to suggest some solutions for this? > > > Cheers, > > Luther > > ********************************************************************** > Dear all, > > I am writing on behalf of The Online Citizen http://theonlinecitizen.com/. > We would appreciate if anyone could offer us some help in terms of > countering, fixing, or redirecting DDoS attacks on our website. > > TOC is the largest socio-political blog in Singapore in terms of > readership. We've came under a DDoS attack at midnight, 9 Jan 2009. > These attacks doubled in strength after we posted that we fixed the > problem, on facebook. The problem has now been rectified since we've > upgraded to a VPS but we predict that there will be more attacks in > future, closer to the elections. > > In our exchange, someone mentioned that there was no way to 'stop' > a DDoS attack per se, it's a matter of which side is more patient. It > seems, however, that whoever is attacking us has more resources than we > do, and probably could flood us for weeks., > > Although one option is to duplicate our content on other sites, > including facebook, that only fixes the problem of accessing the > socio-political content. We're trying to monetise the site now, and > problems like these would drive away advertisers. > > Hope to hear from you soon, > Shihan > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://debmal.my
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