This is not my strategy but worst case scenario. They attacked IRC providers, they will likely attack them again, just as they can attack wikipedia any time. That shouldn't be excuse to stop extending the infrastructure or cooperation with other similar projects.
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Sébastien Santoro dereckson@espace-win.org wrote:
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Petr Bena benapetr@gmail.com 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/
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