On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 02:22:54AM -0800, joachim Gwoke wrote:
> I am seeing a lot of ways to take down websites, networks etc.
> any chance of seeing any defenses against such and such? Or is that just 
> plain boring?
> 

DoS attacks are boring.

You have limitted resources:
1) CPU
2) RAM
3) Disk space
4) Network bandwidth

If your software is good then you will run out of bandwidth before you
run out of the others.  But in the end you always are going to run out.

The only mildly interesting DoS attacks are where the attacker only uses
a tiny amount of bandwidth to take down a larger network.  The defense
is to rewrite things until they can only attack you by using up all your
bandwidth.

regards,
dan carpenter

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