Re: Bad Idea of The Week: 'Friendly Botnets'

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:36:59 PDT, Blue Boar said:
> Possibly more of a bad name. I don't see anything inherently evil in
> distributed front-end proxies. Doubtful how workable it is, though.

Am I misreading the fine article, or are they saying it's harder for
a botnet to DDoS a server if it's load-balanced across a shitload of
front-end servers, preferably geographically diverse?

The guys who have been anycasting the root DNS servers for years will
welcome this advance. ;)

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