On 23/03/07, Jeff V. Merkey
<jmerkey(a)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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