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Re: GoDaddy : DDoS : : Contact
From: "Roland Dobbins" <rdobbins () arbor net>
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 21:34:50 +0700
On 3 Aug 2015, at 21:19, Stephen Satchell wrote:
And any half-awake server operator would have turned on SYNCOOKIES a long time ago.
I hate to tell you this, but a) SYN-cookies aren't a perfect response, as servers don't have infinite resources, and b) stateful firewalls go down *all the time* under DDoS attacks.
It might be a good idea to search the list archives for more on this phenomenon.
There's also information available in the Arbor WISRs; I think the first time we explicitly asked in the survey about stateful devices going down under DDoS was in 2010:
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Current thread:
- Re: GoDaddy : DDoS : : Contact, (continued)
- Re: GoDaddy : DDoS : : Contact John Levine (Aug 02)
- Re: GoDaddy : DDoS : : Contact Roland Dobbins (Aug 02)
- Re: GoDaddy : DDoS : : Contact Mel Beckman (Aug 03)
- Re: GoDaddy : DDoS : : Contact Roland Dobbins (Aug 03)
- Re: GoDaddy : DDoS : : Contact A . L . M . Buxey (Aug 03)
- Re: GoDaddy : DDoS : : Contact Stephen Satchell (Aug 03)
- Re: GoDaddy : DDoS : : Contact Mel Beckman (Aug 03)
- Re: GoDaddy : DDoS : : Contact Roland Dobbins (Aug 03)
- Re: GoDaddy : DDoS : : Contact Roland Dobbins (Aug 03)
- Re: GoDaddy : DDoS : : Contact Stephen Satchell (Aug 03)
- Re: GoDaddy : DDoS : : Contact Roland Dobbins (Aug 03)