On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)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/