Possibly curmudgeonly thoughts about the DDoS and architecture... (was Re: [twitter-dev] Re: The silence is deafening....)

2009-08-08 Thread Nick Arnett
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Twitter needs to realize that our apps are NOT still down because of the ongoing denial-of-service attack. That's a cop-out to blame the attack. Our apps are still down because they cannot allow known, white-listed IP

Re: Possibly curmudgeonly thoughts about the DDoS and architecture... (was Re: [twitter-dev] Re: The silence is deafening....)

2009-08-08 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Nick, Yes, they have very competent people. My criticism is not leveled against the API team. They are not the ones responsible for the edge defenses. But this thing has happened every single time so far. Twitter comes under attack, and the response is to simply swing the machine gun in a 360