Jim Hu wrote:
Even if you didn't want to do this at the wiki
level, I don't think
special equipment is needed. If you know where the DDOS is coming
from, you can block at the Apache level, the firewall level, or use
throttling scripts.
Clearly you have no experience with real DDoS attacks, then. If a web
page falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make
a sound?
(For the zen-challenged: functioning servers aren't very useful when no
one can reach them.)
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