On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: > In worst case our server can be delinked for that time. I believe that > wikipedia is attacked way more often than IRC networks and we are able > to resist that. (There are experts in staff, be sure) > Also, giving up and leave the hackers win (despite they didn't even > start attacking us) is not really brave solution :-)
I agree we can't leave the pirates and script kiddies win the IRC war, but I'm not comfortable with the hit & run strategy. I had a dedicated hosting company and it required some weeks 10-15 hours at 2 people dedicated to contact the attacking providers, arrange throttling, adjust the QoS, it were very strained. Yes, they already attacked Freenode: http://blog.freenode.net/2009/12/december-15th-ddos/ "We are currently experiencing heavy DDoS against several locations at which some of our servers are hosted. The attack is ongoing and cause a lot of disruption, both to users of the network and unfortunately to projects/companies/individuals whose infrastructure is hosted at the same locations as us. Our sponsors and our sponsors’ upstreams are working hard to try curb the attacks as best they can." -- Sébastien Santoro aka Dereckson http://www.dereckson.be/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
