James E. Blair [mailto:jebl...@openstack.org] wrote:
>significant amount of time chasing bots. It's clear that Freenode is >better able to deal with attacks than OFTC would be. However, OFTC >doesn't have to deal with them because they aren't happening; and that's >worth considering. Does anyone have any idea who is being targeted by the attacks? I assume they're hitting Freenode as a whole, but presumably the motivation is one or more channels as opposed to just not liking Freenode in principle. Honestly I tried IRC in the mid-nineties and didn't see the point (I spent all my free time reading Usenet (and even paid for Agent at one point after switching from nn on SunOS to Free Agent on Windows)) and never found any reason to go back to IRC until finding out that OpenStack's world revolves around Freenode. So I was only distantly aware of the battlefield of DDoSers trying to cause netsplits in order to "get ops" on contentious channels. Is there any chance that OpenStack is the target of the DDoSers? Or do you think there's some other target on Freenode and we're just collateral damage? _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev