David Gerard wrote:
On 23/03/07, Jeff V. Merkey jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote:
What do you guys do to deal with these zombie bot-net attacks on this scale?
Be a top-10 website that could slashdot other sites if it wanted to? :-)
Well, I found if you take squid out of the mix, MediaWiki is resilent and withstands these attacks very well if you limit how much of the pipe gets chewed up by the excessive connections. Squid did not handle it well.
Jeff
- d.
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