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

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:22:40 -0000, Paul Ferguson said:

> > 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?
>
> Similar in nature to how an Akamai-zed presence can basically allow
> the Akamai CDN to "absorb" a DDoS.

"Those who do not understand the history of network engineering are
doomed to re-invent it, poorly" or some such quote comes to mind...

Attachment: _bin
Description:

_______________________________________________
Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts.
https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec
Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.